Take a look at what I found when I took away some boxing in around some pipe work today! I found a junction box under the floor upstairs in the job we are doing this week and found that someone had cut into the ring main with a junction box and took a spur from that. I then traced the cable to a point where it disappeared downstairs.
I went downstairs to where I worked it out roughly to be and found that it was in the corner of the kitchen behind some boxing in. I removed the boxing in to find that the other end of this ‘ Live cable ‘ was just wrapped around a copper pipe! If you look closely you can even see that the phase (live) conductor is even exposed. I am so glad that we are here sorting out the electrical problems in this property as we can all quite clearly see that this can’t possibly be left in this state. This is just another reason why I am so happy that it is now illegal ( building regulation Part P ) for non competent persons to install or move electrical circuits without building control consent or a competent ( registered ) electrician to do the work. I have seen a quite a few electrical horrors over the years but this one must be one of the most dangerous I have seen in a long time. Specially as the electrical installation, before we change the consumer unit, Had an old fuse box and not even the water supply was bonded!
I went downstairs to where I worked it out roughly to be and found that it was in the corner of the kitchen behind some boxing in. I removed the boxing in to find that the other end of this ‘ Live cable ‘ was just wrapped around a copper pipe! If you look closely you can even see that the phase (live) conductor is even exposed. I am so glad that we are here sorting out the electrical problems in this property as we can all quite clearly see that this can’t possibly be left in this state. This is just another reason why I am so happy that it is now illegal ( building regulation Part P ) for non competent persons to install or move electrical circuits without building control consent or a competent ( registered ) electrician to do the work. I have seen a quite a few electrical horrors over the years but this one must be one of the most dangerous I have seen in a long time. Specially as the electrical installation, before we change the consumer unit, Had an old fuse box and not even the water supply was bonded!
