Hi,
What is the best cable detector available (or a good enough one at least)? It's fine if it only detects power. I was ripping out several long dead fuse spurs from my "palace" when I discovered a live one! Someone has placed a spur for lighting in an extension in one of the bedrooms (replete with conduits on top of wall). There is no sensible reason for it to be in this room, so my choices are either to put a flush fusebox in the bedroom and leave it in it's strange home, or better I'd rather move it to the electricity cupboard, which happens to be about 7 feet directly below the strange fusebox making a home in this room.
Problem is though to get to where it is it must have gone diagonally through the ceiling and I'd rather not refit anymore plasterboard than necessary. AFAIK cables are illegal to be diagonal in walls but not in ceilings, and if I don't move it in that room and only move the cable down into the electric cupboard where it should have been in the first place, I wouldn't have broken any regulations even if it was. Is that correct?
My cable detector sucks. It's telling me there are cables all over the place and there aren't. Maybe that's because it's 30 years old... good suggestions for replacement? Or any other ideas as to how best deal with the situation.
What is the best cable detector available (or a good enough one at least)? It's fine if it only detects power. I was ripping out several long dead fuse spurs from my "palace" when I discovered a live one! Someone has placed a spur for lighting in an extension in one of the bedrooms (replete with conduits on top of wall). There is no sensible reason for it to be in this room, so my choices are either to put a flush fusebox in the bedroom and leave it in it's strange home, or better I'd rather move it to the electricity cupboard, which happens to be about 7 feet directly below the strange fusebox making a home in this room.
Problem is though to get to where it is it must have gone diagonally through the ceiling and I'd rather not refit anymore plasterboard than necessary. AFAIK cables are illegal to be diagonal in walls but not in ceilings, and if I don't move it in that room and only move the cable down into the electric cupboard where it should have been in the first place, I wouldn't have broken any regulations even if it was. Is that correct?
My cable detector sucks. It's telling me there are cables all over the place and there aren't. Maybe that's because it's 30 years old... good suggestions for replacement? Or any other ideas as to how best deal with the situation.
