Hi all,
whilst pulling my kitchen apart trying to find a frozen pipe I discovered the wiring in the attached photo. A couple of things bothered me about this and I wanted to know:
Is it acceptable to have wiring joined with the porcelein cap things shown in the photo? - I've never seen these before, but am only a youngster, so they probably pre-date me.
Is it acceptable to have wiring joined in this manner so close to the copper pipe below?
Is it acceptable to have a black and red wire joined together as in the top left of the picture - everything work ok and theres no sparks, so I presume that these aren't line and neutral?
Thanks for any help!
EDIT: I don't know if makes any difference, but I beleive that this joint splits the wiring to feed my outbuildings/outside WC.
whilst pulling my kitchen apart trying to find a frozen pipe I discovered the wiring in the attached photo. A couple of things bothered me about this and I wanted to know:
Is it acceptable to have wiring joined with the porcelein cap things shown in the photo? - I've never seen these before, but am only a youngster, so they probably pre-date me.
Is it acceptable to have wiring joined in this manner so close to the copper pipe below?
Is it acceptable to have a black and red wire joined together as in the top left of the picture - everything work ok and theres no sparks, so I presume that these aren't line and neutral?
Thanks for any help!
EDIT: I don't know if makes any difference, but I beleive that this joint splits the wiring to feed my outbuildings/outside WC.