lawn mower cut neighbours electric off?

Each residential property should have its own single phase supply. Any idea if the house was a self build or building company construction? Only thing I can think of is it was a self build and to save money the owner installed 1 3 phase supply instead of multiple single phase even then because they are on essentially the same mains cable (mpan) they should all be billed together not as seperate meters on seperate sites/ accounts. Whats the arrangement re the metera eg does wach house have its own? Are they credit or key meters? Where are the meters located?
 
ubersonic said:
Exactly what I was thinking :P

Would be funny if a couple of his sockets were connected to the neighbour mains :P
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This as well which would be hilariously poor wiring. Easy way to check is get the neighbour to flick the main fuse and if your sockets go dead then there's your answer. Aside from possibly this it sounds like your neighbours consumer unit is on the way out
 
HybridX said:
This as well which would be hilariously poor wiring. Easy way to check is get the neighbour to flick the main fuse and if your sockets go dead then there's your answer. Aside from possibly this it sounds like your neighbours consumer unit is on the way out
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Surely if if this was the case, then his lawn mower would have cut out every time the neighbours power was being tripped (by it).

On the basis that his mower is apparently unaffected by the neighbours circuit tripping, then I'd say the problem is most likely an earthing problem. How old are the properties? Are they earthed to a metal rod, or water pipe?

An electrician should be able to figure it out fairly quickly, but I'd guess at some kind of fault between neutral and earth connections.
 
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stulid said:
From what I remember from college, each house in turn should be sucking from a different phase of the three from the national grid, if it was likely to happen it would be a three doors down from you.

Or something like that.

*may not be 100% accurate
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+1 correct , he will not be on the same phase as his neighbour
 
HybridX said:
Each residential property should have its own single phase supply. Any idea if the house was a self build or building company construction? Only thing I can think of is it was a self build and to save money the owner installed 1 3 phase supply instead of multiple single phase even then because they are on essentially the same mains cable (mpan) they should all be billed together not as seperate meters on seperate sites/ accounts. Whats the arrangement re the metera eg does wach house have its own? Are they credit or key meters? Where are the meters located?
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I'm on a large housing estate built Aug 2005, I think it was built by Bryant Homes (from memory). I moved in on the 8th June 2012 so not really looked at the electric readings since I moved in and called the supplier. The meters are on the outside in a box on the wall. We haven't had any electrical problems at all.
 
Dodgy earth somewhere between the 2 houses

Weird that it's only your lawn mower that does it though...

If you plug something else high powered in does it do the same thing , kettle ? Microwave ? Etc?
 
First I ever heard of a mower that plugs in, plus I don't think houses can share circuits. Still sounds odd to me happening with whatever outlet you use.
 
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