OK about a year ago we got an issue where the rcd wouldn't reset Eventually worked out it was the downstairs socket ring got someone in who after half an hour couldn't work it out said it might be a piched cable removed it from the rcd and left... Now everyone you touch something metal and something earthed together you got a lovely warm and tingly sensation called electric shock... Today I had enough and changed every socket in the house to try and solve it. Only to still have the same issues... In checking the under stairs cupboard I found the light didn't work. OK turns out someone put the light directly into the ring mains. Re-removed some plugs to find the spur and couldn't. Turns out the last owner boarded up a doorway and put his own sockets in. Tearing one part off I can just about see a choc block connector. Linked to another. To another and so on. It looks like who ever it was completely Re did the ring mains on his own Is it worth me even attempting to fix this or should I give in and call an expert (not the guy who removed the rcd)
You really need to have the appropriate test equipment. You may find the cause by chance just by looking but its unlikely. It will probably take more than an hour to solve this and you need a decent spark.
The guy who removed the RCD was not an electrician, he might have called himself one but he acted in a very cavalier and hazardous manner. You definitely have an earth fault, something you could do yourself to identify the faulty circuit is to turn off all of the breakers and see if you still get a shock, if you do something is very wrong, but I don't expect you to. Rather than touch the live metalwork, use the hated neon screwdriver, test it before and after use on a live terminal. Now turn on your breakers one only, at a time and test for live metalwork, when the neon shows live, that's the faulty circuit. Don't stop here, carry on and test the other circuits by turning on the breakers one by one. You have been bodged by the previous owner, you need a good competent electrician to sort it out.
Will probably call someone once I remove the rest of the boarding and can see the extent of the issue. Last owners left a lot of issues...
Wander lead from MET to exposed metal work etc? Check Ze at origin? Maybe its TN-C-S and the DNO's tie down has let loose?
If you were bleeding from the eyes....would you try to fix it yourself...or...call in a someone with 15 years training and specializing...in bleeding eyes ? Get a grip....and a good sparks in. RS
Well it think it's traced down. There's two options at the moment 1. It's spured off the upstairs socket which has extra cables in... after that he's split it to two plug sockets and a light with connecter blocks 2. He's cut the ring mains between two sockets and spliced everything from there Testing it later when kids are off Internet and if it's 1 I'm simply removing the spur. If it's 2 then it's proper electrician time... Edit - yes upstairs socket I forgot that for some reason there's 3 sockets upstairs on the downstairs loop
When you say you get shocks of the metal work, is it only metal cased equipment plugged into the sockets on the dodgy circuit? or is it a general thing like radiators, in fact anything metal in the house giving shocks (not necessarily on dodgy circuit?
Whilst your photograph does show less than ideal wiring, it doesnt show a real cause of the problems you have been encountering imho, you do need a qualified electrician in to check this out though I reckon. 'Tingling' isn't good, but can be caused by many things.
sparky is called... decided it had gone far beyond what i could deal with and yes JP its only from exposed metal work of appliances - easiest way to get it is touching dishwasher + draining board together - i tested every single appliance by running it through a plug in circuit breaker so fairly sure its not an appliance when we thought back on it we have placed the time the fault started to the same week the bulb blew in the understairs cupboard so as thats linked into the mains ring we are fairly certain the fault must be somewhere near there
That will be lack of CPC then!!!!! Wonder where the break is then!?!?!? Or how many there is!?!?!?! BTW what's a ring main?