On 26/09/2019 15:12, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
ARW wrote:
Some years ago a friend of mine needed a satisfactory EICR to obtain a
mortgage. I went and did the test. Not one socket in the house was
earthed plus a few other problems. This was a 1972 build.

Do you mean the earths weren't connected at all - or a fault between CU
and true ground?


A fault. This was a 4mm 30A radial. It was quite obvious (we gutted the
place) that when the kitchen was fitted a screw had gone straight
through the T&E. The burn marks on the cable suggest that the fuse
probably blew. This destroyed the cpc before the first socket in the house.

I would guess that the fuse was replaced and that as the sockets then
worked nothing else was said about it.

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Adam