I think the same applies to most house owners that posses a drill!
Damaged a meter neutral feed cable to CU
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I think the same applies to most house owners that posses a drill!
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Exactly.
I mean that's just the sort of place someone could fix a pipe, or some sort of moulding, or whatever. Who knows?
I realise it's a safe zone, but given the nature of this job I thought the electrician may have done you a favour and just put a bit of capping at the top, to make the best of a bad job, so to speak.
Ok the $64000000 question is how to resolve this problem and where would the route be to comply with new regs?
The cavity is out as it's apparently not allowed, so what alternative route is there? That thermal block is like butter and now it has a 35mm channel in it there's not much left of it!
The cavity is out as it's apparently not allowed, so what alternative route is there? That thermal block is like butter and now it has a 35mm channel in it there's not much left of it!
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not even in the zone
typical of new build house wiring... cowboys the lot of thembring back the old clerk of works..
on the subject of this i would find out who carried out the work and if in the niceic report them.. because sure as eggs are eggs all the other houses will be the same and some on might get hurt..
pi sses me right off
typical of new build house wiring... cowboys the lot of thembring back the old clerk of works..
on the subject of this i would find out who carried out the work and if in the niceic report them.. because sure as eggs are eggs all the other houses will be the same and some on might get hurt..
pi sses me right off
sorry didnt see the bodged repair.. 
the simplest thing to do is sink a twin metal box in line and below the with the mains tails fit a blank plate ..
this will create a zone for the cables to run above..
you could say a dummy zone
then in future you will be reminded they are there..
the simplest thing to do is sink a twin metal box in line and below the with the mains tails fit a blank plate ..
this will create a zone for the cables to run above..
you could say a dummy zone
then in future you will be reminded they are there..
If the tails ran through the boxe(es) this would serve as an inspection box and people would know where the cables are.
but that wouldn't look great and my wife wouldn't be happy, is there a better option?
RF's comment is worth looking at.
I realise it's page 6 already but...
...where do you think these tails would be had they been correctly installed in the first place?
...where do you think these tails would be had they been correctly installed in the first place?
Direct entry at that corner, from outside, would still be 2.5feet from the rear of the consumer unit which would then have to be moved.
This is rapidly turning into a nightmare scenario.
This is rapidly turning into a nightmare scenario.
Drill it on an angle. I bet I could make the shot.
My question was more a general one to everyone.
Bearing in mind that the window is above the meter cabinet, if the house was being built now where would the cables be routed?
Bearing in mind that the window is above the meter cabinet, if the house was being built now where would the cables be routed?
Fancy a trip to Cardiff to sort it for me? What about if the tails were in that trunking posted earlier would that make it comply if it were earthed and protected with an rcd?
Who should I call in the relevant trade body to get this checked out after they have been tomorrow?
Who should I call in the relevant trade body to get this checked out after they have been tomorrow?
Not really. I'm in Wrexham all week, but Cardiff is a bit out of my way
Ideally the meter cabinet or the window would have been located elsewhere so the tails could drop straight down from the CU to the meter cabinet.
You probably couldn't install the trunking as flushing it into the wall would structurally weaken the wall too much.
RCD is not an option either, as it needs to be 30mA to offer protection against electric shock, but this leaves you non compliant as you now have a single point of failure.
What about a SWA run i n the route that the existing tails take. Terminate it into a metal clad switch fuse at the meter cabinet end, and a new flush box next to the CU with the cable terminated into it and a blank plate over it.
It's still not ideal, but is compliant with the regs.
Ideally the meter cabinet or the window would have been located elsewhere so the tails could drop straight down from the CU to the meter cabinet.
You probably couldn't install the trunking as flushing it into the wall would structurally weaken the wall too much.
RCD is not an option either, as it needs to be 30mA to offer protection against electric shock, but this leaves you non compliant as you now have a single point of failure.
What about a SWA run i n the route that the existing tails take. Terminate it into a metal clad switch fuse at the meter cabinet end, and a new flush box next to the CU with the cable terminated into it and a blank plate over it.
It's still not ideal, but is compliant with the regs.
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