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This is another picture I took of yet more cables being joined together! I do really find it unbelieveable that people know about this, see it every day in their homes and do not even concider that this could be an issue!
The problem with this one is that the wiring you see in this picture is in a cottage and as all us electricians know, how hard it would be to sort problems like this out in a property that has no space between the floors and the ground floor is concrete. I now need to explain that the property really needs some work and that the only way do sort the problems out is to run loads of trunking all over their period features and chase the walls ? Of course we do know that there is now trunking on the market that can blend in ( sort of ! ) to the beams but unless they want a piece of trunking down the wall it will need chasing in. To be honest I have not taken any readings on the electrical system but I am guessing that numerous cables would need replacing or mechanically protected. What I am going to do is any connector block I find around the property I will replace with a brown junction box as of course this will be much safer.
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