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Hi I have a couple of amazing finds that i susspect some people have been lucky to live when they did them,
1) Today I have tided up my airing cupboard around the central heating wires than run up the wall. God knows how the person who put the cable clips in to the wall was so lucky - they obliviously didn't work out that the immersion radial circuit runs up the same wall just below the surface of plaster in plastic conduit.
Amazingly on investigation both nails had MISSED the cable it's self - if they had hit the live etc they would of noticed! I have now labeled the wall as to where the cable runs and filled over the mess ups!!!! Quite pleased i don't have to replace anything.
2) BUT i need some advice on the following:
The plaster work/sinking of cables in their conduit is not the best ever in several places in my house. I put a shelf up recently in the kitchen and removed a nail that has been in the wall for years and years from previous owners. The plaster was quite loose and appeared to have been filled before so I chipped some away to investigate bearing in mind there is a double socket not far below that a monkey could even work out.
I find this:
As i said above it has a socket below just above the work top and as you can see it is part of a ring fed from in the first floor above.
The nail i removed (carefully) is the pin hole - the other thing you can see is a 5mm rawl plug that could well be in the cable!!!!!
Now obviously the rawl plug needs coming out and the cable investigating what is best practice the repair this cable if it looks damaged?
I would look at cutting out a section of conduit and crimping the effected wires back together, heatshrinking and plaster/fill over. Assuming that crimping is Ok in my CU there is quite a few!? I think ideally the whole length of wires down the wall need sinking in more. When kitchen extension is done i will do that.
Don't even get me started on what else I've found!
Many thanks in advance.
1) Today I have tided up my airing cupboard around the central heating wires than run up the wall. God knows how the person who put the cable clips in to the wall was so lucky - they obliviously didn't work out that the immersion radial circuit runs up the same wall just below the surface of plaster in plastic conduit.
Amazingly on investigation both nails had MISSED the cable it's self - if they had hit the live etc they would of noticed! I have now labeled the wall as to where the cable runs and filled over the mess ups!!!! Quite pleased i don't have to replace anything.
2) BUT i need some advice on the following:
The plaster work/sinking of cables in their conduit is not the best ever in several places in my house. I put a shelf up recently in the kitchen and removed a nail that has been in the wall for years and years from previous owners. The plaster was quite loose and appeared to have been filled before so I chipped some away to investigate bearing in mind there is a double socket not far below that a monkey could even work out.
I find this:
As i said above it has a socket below just above the work top and as you can see it is part of a ring fed from in the first floor above.
The nail i removed (carefully) is the pin hole - the other thing you can see is a 5mm rawl plug that could well be in the cable!!!!!
Now obviously the rawl plug needs coming out and the cable investigating what is best practice the repair this cable if it looks damaged?
I would look at cutting out a section of conduit and crimping the effected wires back together, heatshrinking and plaster/fill over. Assuming that crimping is Ok in my CU there is quite a few!? I think ideally the whole length of wires down the wall need sinking in more. When kitchen extension is done i will do that.
Don't even get me started on what else I've found!
Many thanks in advance.