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A truly SHOCKING tale of electrified PCs

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Re: Saved by synthetic carpet?

I was changing a light to a ceiling fan light in my Aunt's kitchen. Dropped the MCBs one by one until the light went out. Marked the circuit breakers and "locked" off the circuit with duck tape. Went back upstairs to work on the light... felt the hairs on the back of my hand go up... checked it with my mains tester. Live.

Some moron had taken the lighting ring out of one MCB, round the loop and back into a DIFFERENT MCB, and on top of that, they'd switched on the Neutral! Cost of rewiring her 9 bedroom house... £7,000

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