Electricity everywhere! ... Seriously
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Hi,
Was trying to put up a new toilet mirror in a house we have just bought.
Being a good a boy I did a quick detector check in the area I wanted to drill for live wires etc.
The entirety of the toilet wall is indicating live wires, as is the whole of the adjacent wall!
I then went to the bathroom upstairs where I was installing another mirror and same again, in fact large chunks of the entire house are showing live wires with not one but two detectors.
I did a systematic check and the issue goes away for the downstairs toilet if I turn off the "kitchen sockets" fuse which is connected to an RCD (that isn't tripping). The toilet backs onto the kitchen so that makes sense.
So any ideas what this might be? Lead paint? eddy current??
House is 1950s roughly with black/red wiring. Two RCDs with 4-5 fuses per RCD
Thanks
Was trying to put up a new toilet mirror in a house we have just bought.
Being a good a boy I did a quick detector check in the area I wanted to drill for live wires etc.
The entirety of the toilet wall is indicating live wires, as is the whole of the adjacent wall!
I then went to the bathroom upstairs where I was installing another mirror and same again, in fact large chunks of the entire house are showing live wires with not one but two detectors.
I did a systematic check and the issue goes away for the downstairs toilet if I turn off the "kitchen sockets" fuse which is connected to an RCD (that isn't tripping). The toilet backs onto the kitchen so that makes sense.
So any ideas what this might be? Lead paint? eddy current??
House is 1950s roughly with black/red wiring. Two RCDs with 4-5 fuses per RCD
Thanks
If its a standard house that hasn't been too bodged over the years and you have a rcd/rcbo then you should be able to work out how the cables are run.
Older houses don't have as much wiring either, its not like modern and bodged houses where there are sockets everywhere
Or just get a sparky who could map out rooms for you
Older houses don't have as much wiring either, its not like modern and bodged houses where there are sockets everywhere
Or just get a sparky who could map out rooms for you
andharri said:
The entirety of the toilet wall is indicating live wires, as is the whole of the adjacent wall!
I then went to the bathroom upstairs where I was installing another mirror and same again, in fact large chunks of the entire house are showing live wires with not one but two detectors.
If you put your free hand on wall do the detectors still show voltage present?I then went to the bathroom upstairs where I was installing another mirror and same again, in fact large chunks of the entire house are showing live wires with not one but two detectors.
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