Electric problem

RatRibs73 · 2006-09-13T07:54:53+00:00

Morning all,While renovating the lounge I preinstalled some flush sockets beforeplastering. This meant that I had two wires for each socket waiting tobe connected to the ring main. Last night I joined the spidersunderneath the floor and tried to connect everything up but failed andnow I have no power on the ground floor. I'll try to give as muchdetail as I can and hopefully someone can give me some advice.The consumer unit, which was replaced a couple of months ago, is in onecorner of the room and the existing cable goes around three walls, inand out of the sockets on it's way and then exits into the cellar.Nothing complicated. The new sockets are close to the existing ones soall I did was cut into the existing cable in a couple of places andjoin it up to the new cable with 30Amp connector blocks. This "joinedup" cable followed the same route around the 3 walls, in and out of thenew sockets. Flicked the MCB on - no power! I checked all of theconnector blocks and everything was tightly connected, then checked allsockets and they were wired up correctly. At about midnight I decidedenough was enough and so reverted back to the original wiring byrejoining up all of the cuts I made with the connector block. Stillnothing!! How hard is it to go wrong with a connector block? Is thereanything else which could be causing the problem? Anyone got any ideas?Cheers,Matt