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Think about the whole image, not just any one part of it.
Go On....Guess What This Is A Picture Of!
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Is that pic the rightway around (90deg acw), it looks like it's a ceiling void with a light fitting semi recessed..
The white rectangular item is a surface mount pattress sunk into a stud partition wall.
Can't divine the rest of it.
Can't divine the rest of it.
If we go with BAS's idea of a surface pattress,
then I think that the rest of it is a bunch of cables taped together, brought out of the wall and then into the pattress from underneath.. it also looks as if they have tried to give some support to the cable by putting long screws through the board for them to rest on!
then I think that the rest of it is a bunch of cables taped together, brought out of the wall and then into the pattress from underneath.. it also looks as if they have tried to give some support to the cable by putting long screws through the board for them to rest on!
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Sorry guys: I've rotated the picture to it's correct orientation.
It could be a wall, with plasterboard both sides. Or a ceiling void, but surely those timbers aren't big enough for a floor. So perhaps its the void between ceiling and loft flooring. But why would it have a noggin?
And isn't that a nail lying on the noggin?
The edges of the box look rounded. Maybe thats the faceplate side. Except there aren't any backbox fixing holes.
I can't actually see any cables - just the torn paper from the plasterboard.
And those two fixings - a pull cord switch?
Oh the suspense!
And isn't that a nail lying on the noggin?
The edges of the box look rounded. Maybe thats the faceplate side. Except there aren't any backbox fixing holes.
I can't actually see any cables - just the torn paper from the plasterboard.
And those two fixings - a pull cord switch?
Oh the suspense!
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sparkyspike
It looks like a flat piece of timber in a ceiling to screw something onto. Fan maybe?! No wires though?
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sparkyspike
What's bothering me, is where the void is. What material is above the joists? Looks like a chipboard floor.
Plasterboard suspended/false ceiling with a 13A double socket fixed to it and the cables, which do not look like 2.5mm, brought through the plasterboard and fed into the base of the patress rather than through the back.
Go on put us out of our misery.
Go on put us out of our misery.
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OK!
This picture is actually related to the other thread about the open-circuit switch cable.
The picture was taken through the switch box aperture with the lens pointing upwards. What struck me was that there were absolutely no noggins in this stud wall.
The thing that is puzzling everyone is actually an off-cut of conti faced chipboard which (get this!) has been screwed through to another piece on the outside of the plasterboard onto which is fixed a bracket supporting one side of a (well-filled) wall cabinet..
The really silly thing is that those makeshift fixings for the cabinet were obviously not enough, as the damaged plasterboard was caused by extra fixings hastily screwed through the back of the wall unit to try & give it extra support...
Now, if there were noggins in the wall....
Perhaps this thread title should be renamed "How Not To Hang A Kitchen Cabinet"!
This picture is actually related to the other thread about the open-circuit switch cable.
The picture was taken through the switch box aperture with the lens pointing upwards. What struck me was that there were absolutely no noggins in this stud wall.
The thing that is puzzling everyone is actually an off-cut of conti faced chipboard which (get this!) has been screwed through to another piece on the outside of the plasterboard onto which is fixed a bracket supporting one side of a (well-filled) wall cabinet..
The really silly thing is that those makeshift fixings for the cabinet were obviously not enough, as the damaged plasterboard was caused by extra fixings hastily screwed through the back of the wall unit to try & give it extra support...
Now, if there were noggins in the wall....
Perhaps this thread title should be renamed "How Not To Hang A Kitchen Cabinet"!
Now that's just cheating 
(not at all electrically related 
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Looks like the whole house is a bodge and not just the wiring then??
(not at all electrically related )Looks like the whole house is a bodge and not just the wiring then??
Can't have been, he knows what he is doing.
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sparkyspike
I thought I was pretty close with a piece of timber. I even suggested it was carrying something heavy.. I'm going to have a cup of tea to celebrate..
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