I wonder if someone can shed any light on this for me?
We recently moved into a 1950s house and have redecorated most rooms and have now come to the downstairs loo, which i think used to be a pantry many years ago, underneath the stairs.
They\\\'ve put a small corner sink underneath the window, but after stripping the wallpaper off, we can now see 2 (looks like 2.5mm T+E) cables that come out of the wall, travel underneath the overhanging window sill (6 inches above the sink) and then dissapear through a new studded wall into the kitchen to feed 2 sockets on their own on the same wall.
I\\\'m not sure now if this is legal (probably not) but would it have been in the regs to do that years ago?
Ideally we\\\'d like to tile the lower half of the walls but i doubt we\\\'d be able to tile over the 2 cables protruding from the walls!
Any ideas on this?
I think the cables go into the wall and come out at the bottom of the wall and go through some trunking to the consumer unit underneath the smallest part of the stairs on their own re-wireable fuse.
This is the first problem I\\\'m putting on here.
Thanks,
Paul
We recently moved into a 1950s house and have redecorated most rooms and have now come to the downstairs loo, which i think used to be a pantry many years ago, underneath the stairs.
They\\\'ve put a small corner sink underneath the window, but after stripping the wallpaper off, we can now see 2 (looks like 2.5mm T+E) cables that come out of the wall, travel underneath the overhanging window sill (6 inches above the sink) and then dissapear through a new studded wall into the kitchen to feed 2 sockets on their own on the same wall.
I\\\'m not sure now if this is legal (probably not) but would it have been in the regs to do that years ago?
Ideally we\\\'d like to tile the lower half of the walls but i doubt we\\\'d be able to tile over the 2 cables protruding from the walls!
Any ideas on this?
I think the cables go into the wall and come out at the bottom of the wall and go through some trunking to the consumer unit underneath the smallest part of the stairs on their own re-wireable fuse.
This is the first problem I\\\'m putting on here.
Thanks,
Paul