here we are at this socket now i've just done an R1 R2 check on it with the figure of eight check
so the continuity check and on this socket i got about 79 ohms or something like that
whereas all the other sockets throughout the throughout the house was reading about 0.24 ohms
so there was so there was this this socket that was reading higher and then the socket
on the other side of the wall so everything's live again now and so just with my socket tester
and you can see that the socket is turned off and it's flashing all red lights
now i hadn't actually seen that previously because i i just turned it on proof so this is actually
turned off and it's saying that there's a live fault but now if i turn the switch on
it now comes up as to say so two red lights and a green light and that says there's that live
to neutral reverse which is a bit of a problem
i've never had that before like this
i'm just gonna
i'm just scraping around the outside there because it's been freshly painted recently
so i just want to undo it exactly how it is these screws are a bit awkward
this is the first time i've undone it
this house has recently been refurbished and all i'm doing is an EICR for the um for the people who
are renting the property out but it has just on apparently it's undergone a full rewire
and a new consumer unit nothing but there's no records or anything so i'm just gently gonna
prise this open i don't know what we can see on here
so okay so we've got the neutrals or what appears to be the neutrals
and they are going into the live terminal and then the neutral down this side
the red wires are going in that so that appears that we have a live and neutral reverse
so that obviously i'm not i'm gonna have to fix that i can't just leave that like it is
a couple other things on here that you can see there's no grommets and you can see this is a
relatively new box it's um again this one's just been fitted um in the last or six weeks i think
or this is one one that has been done and you see there's no grommets on there
there's no grommets by the looks of on this side neither so i'll put this one back together and
then we'll quickly have a look at the other one in fact if you look at that i've just noticed
that's wobbly as well let's just see how tight the screw is but let's just see how tight that is
i'll get it on yeah look at that that's not not not tight at all
so that will need doing and fixing putting right okay so now i've rewired this 13 amp socket i've
put the same socket back on um it's actually a brand new socket even though it's a very cheap
cheap one but we've reused it so you can see that we've put the
the lines back in their correct place we've put the neutrals back in their correct place
we've put grommets on the 20 mil cut outs because they didn't have them on i haven't put washers on
the screws um that's how i would install them with washers but we haven't done it this time
and i've neatened up the in fact i will just trim that bit off i should have done that
um but one of the things that i have done here is i've took both of the CPC's into the
um into this brass terminal there and then i've just took the fly lead coming out and
going straight into the connection there um rather than just extending them and doing and putting the
fly lead in anyway i've just done it like that um i haven't doubled back the the um the live
conductors how i'd normally do them for one there wasn't a lot of space in the terminals and two
there's these two wires coming from the bottom there's not a lot of length on them so i could
have extended them but but i haven't done i haven't done that so anyway that's um hopefully
that's a a neater job we're going to do the other side now and then we can get it tested and
check that it's all okay so we're now at the back of the socket that we've just shown you so this
is in in the room adjacent so again i'm just gonna again i've got a bad reading on this one
so that says this time all three red lights are flashing which shows a live fault
turn it on and then it says again the same fault previously well that's the same fault previously
yep live neutral reverse
i want to show you exactly what's going on as i'm seeing it so from an inspector's point of view
and again this one well has apparently just been replaced i don't i think this is original this is
an original stock i'm not really quite i'm not really sure but again exactly the same thing
in this situation here so if you look there
again the neutrals are just twisted up and go into here
into the live and and the and the also the line the reds go into the neutral and again
there's no there's no um earth tail coming back to the box no grommets even even silly little even
things like the screws they should really have a washer on there it's just quite poor workmanship
so we're now back at the original socket i've connected
the the the figure eight stage three test up again and so now we can check it so the figure of eight
is obviously between the line and the um the CPCs and so i've turned it on to the low v no
meter turn it on i've already zeroed out these leads 0.27 that's a good reading
that's what we were getting on all the other
sockets and now if we just go around to the
other socket
you can see i've done this one as well
and plug it in again this is the first time i've tested it turn it on 0.27 so that's a
good reading again so now i'll go and reconnect it back up and then we'll do a live check again
okay so this is the circuit that i'm working in so i always write down
everything um before i've write the certificate it always gets filled out on my pad first so
this socket here is this socket so you can say when i got the reading i was getting 80.7 ohms
and again the socket on the other side was this one so now i've i've i can get
rid of both those because i've often i knew that those ones were faulty so it was point two point
so in total 13 sockets plus the two so 15 sockets on that one circuit that i've found so far
that's just how how we do those ones so now we can plug this back in
all good
again i'm only using the plug-in tester just as a a means of quick testing just to check it's
not actually part of the any official check-in so or any official testing so now i've set the
while i'm here i might as well do a Zs test and so let's turn that on picked up a voltage
always takes a few seconds 0.98 things so um i've got Zs so 0.98 for that one i'll then
go around and check all the others so we can turn this one off now one thing you will notice
underneath is as soon as i started taking it apart part of this just kept breaking away now
i've got some of the poly filler in the van so before i do go i will just poly filler that up
and just let the client know um that i've done that let's go back around to the other socket
this was the first socket that we came that we did that i videoed so again plug it in it was showing
live in neutral reverse now it's showing everything's good
so again we might as well do a Zs test on this one as well it's picked up a voltage
1.1 ohms so again i've now made a note of that so again how i did this one with all these figures
here for my R1R2 will be the the highest out of those readings same with this one i'll go around
now and check the Zs for each one of those and go go from there so just just to end the video
um one of the things that we we're taught when we're doing the EICR which is what i'm doing today
is that we're here just to check the actual um condition of the the circuits and not actually
take everything apart and fix them you make a list of all the C1 C2 C3s and then you go from
there but um sometimes you get situations like like today um but you know you can't
i don't think you can just leave it it's easier to fix it spend another sort of half hour fixing it
rather than rather than just leaving it especially in the other room that you saw there was a um
there was a cot in that room so that's actually a little nursery where there's a
little um two-year-old child lives in there so you can't leave in in my opinion you can't leave the
sockets um with a fault like that um in it so yes it has took me an extra half hour to fix the job
um hopefully i'll be able to charge a little bit extra to the um
to the landlord i've already phoned the landlord up and explained this and and they already um
they already know how we do things anyway because i've done lots of jobs from before
just uh a quick one um in both rooms they have got these little um little fans in them
and the customer has informed me just afterwards that they have had problems with both of these
working so they've got one on this socket and one on the other socket and so they are
intermittently working so they are they've only just told me that after i found the fault anyway
now um if every single socket had had the same fault obviously i wouldn't have gone round
and done all the um and fixed everything like this i'd have had to have put it on hold and
said to the landlord that we need to come back on another day but seeings as as you can see on my
um results that i'm getting on here 13 out of the 15 sockets we're all good it's only the last two
that i tested that weren't good and so that's why i fixed them so now that's that circuit
is is a good circuit um i dread to think what all the other circuits all the other
sockets have been wired up like as i said i've been told it's a full rewire
and stuff but it doesn't look like it was a full rewire because we've still got the old red and
the black cables in there but anyway that's just a quick insight into doing the continuity testing
on the on a ring final circuit and showing some of the faults that there are that you can come across
you