Mains cable

[goodmow8888]

The mains cable coming in to my house comes up from the floorboards and was hidden behind a wooden box fixed to the wall. Can i chop the brick back and fix it with 30mm clamps to the brick and then plaster over the top to hide it?

 

[JohnW2]

The mains cable coming in to my house comes up from the floorboards and was hidden behind a wooden box fixed to the wall. Can i chop the brick back and fix it with 30mm clamps to the brick and then plaster over the top to hide it?

NO. Interfering with that cable could have catastrophic consequences. The only people allowed to touch it (and the only people who can touch it safely) are the DNO (electricity distribution company), but I doubt they would be prepared to do what you would like.

Kind Regards, John

 

[PBC_1966]

I doubt they would be prepared to do what you would like.

And even if they would, you can bet they would want to charge a small fortune for doing it and might even insist these days that the only change possible would be to install a new feed to an outside meter cabinet.

 

[sparkwright]

Don't attempt this. Apart from what has already been said, you don't want THAT cable buried in a wall where someone could drill through it.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Can i chop the brick back and fix it with 30mm clamps to the brick and then plaster over the top to hide it?

Why do you want to hide it?

 

[sparkwright]

Can i chop the brick back and fix it with 30mm clamps to the brick and then plaster over the top to hide it?

Why do you want to hide it?

To make the wall look pretty, I expect.

 

[Taylortwocities]

Why do you want to hide it?

Its obvious why:
He has a boxed in section in the middle of his wall and wants to do away with it.

But as above, its there, it's going to stay there unless he pays the DNO to move it.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

This will be the wall with a meter, a cutout, and likely a CU, will it?

 

[PBC_1966]

This will be the wall with a meter, a cutout, and likely a CU, will it?

Possibly, but perhaps they are up high and the OP has the idea of building a cupboard around them but thought it would be nice to get rid of a boxed section running all the way up the wall to the bottom of that cupboard.

 

[goodmow8888]

Yes the CU and meter are up high and in the middle of the wall. It had a horrible painted plywood box section around it. It looks like i will have to make a nicer looking box cover to go round it. Thanks for everybodies helpful replies.

 

[PBC_1966]

It looks like i will have to make a nicer looking box cover to go round it.

Unless you want to spend a small fortune, that is undoubtedly the best way to go.

 

[Lectrician]

The DNO would not permit it to be buried.

 

[EFLImpudence]

It looks like i will have to make a nicer looking box cover to go round it.

CLICK

 

[Echo the husky]

Don't attempt this. Apart from what has already been said, you don't want THAT cable buried in a wall where someone could drill through it.

My old boss drilled through the suppliers concentric that was buried diagonally in someones house, the bang was tremendous. It took out the suppliers fuse feeding one phase of the road the house was on.

 

[PBC_1966]

A friend of a neighbor some years back was rebuilding his house, somehow managed to put new roof joists in place with all the cables left hanging below them, then notched the undersides of all the joists to put up the new ceiling. Despite (supposedly) marking everything carefully, he still managed to put a screw dead center into one of the cables. It was the incoming concentric, which in this place ran a good distance from its entrance at the front of the house through the roof to drop down to the cut-out and meter in an inside cupboard.

"It went with a hell of a bang!" he told me, as he showed me the screw. Or to be more precise, what was left of the screw. He wasn't the brightest lamp in the box when it came to wiring, and wanted to know if he could "just tape up the hole." I heard through my neighbor later that the DNO had charged him about £400 for the replacement.