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    Quote Originally Posted by GCE View Post
    Hi Ians

    We have been caught out twice looking for similar faults in a shower and to make it worse it was intermittent , so we thought.

    When the shower doors/panels were installed they managed to get a screw to just touch the live in a piece of twin and earth coming from a light switch . The shower doors would go live at 220v when the bathroom light was switched on .We were there during the day and my guys never thought to switch the lights on.
    Because the shower taps and drain etc were connected with pvc piping you only got a tingle and not the full 220v
    When I took a earth from the socket in the room next door and tested to the frame work we found the 220v with the light on.
    Has happened to me on two separate occasions , years apart.

    When the water ran down the frame into the drain and connected with the sewer line it appeared that the voltage was coming from the floor drain which was also pvc

    Worth a try using a earth from the sockets close by and switch on all lights , heated towel rails etc
    I have also had this experience.

    A double storey house... with a pvc drain... the water was leaking and running down the drain onto a conduit pipe and down into the ground floor DB

    I did run an earth from various plug points to check continuity and an earth from the main and sub DB's to check the earth.

    The earth point on the meter was finger tight ...the geyser bonding was done by twisting a wire around the pipe which got painted... and bonding straps between the steel drains on the old part of the house had been broken off... no lugs used on the earthing... the list just goes on.
    Last edited by ians; 07-Sep-19 at 12:08 PM.

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