kitchen pics

[spanky]

some pictures of a kitchen I recently was doing.

was driven nuts until discovered JB in pics.

Was wired by kitch company 10 years ago and tiled over.

looked a good job on the surface with MK and spurs for appliances but was a split ring final with 1 leg feeding this Jb then 2 cables off to multiple skts the other leg fed twin 2 spurs and 2 singles. 30a semi enclosed.

had to rip the place apart to find it

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not trying to make any point ............ we all love our pictures

 

[conny]

And no grommets?

 

[hairyben]

looked a good job on the surface

they so often do...

What detection equipment do you use to locate such things?

I've bumbled along with metal/live wire tracers, with eventual success, but treated myself to one of these about a year ago. Can't say I'm overly impressed with it.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

was driven nuts until discovered JB in pics.

That's a somewhat flattering term for a mess like that.

Are there choc-blocks under the tape, or did they just twist the wires together?

 

[spanky]

Hi all

you're right no grommets

As kitchen was being gutted was able to/had to physically trace cables mostly not in zones- with a hammer - have had luck before with a voltstick and a cable close to the surface which led me to a buried "jb" - never tried a metrel cable tracer - but it would be good if it worked.

There is connector under that tape and it was 30a polythene - for the hell of it i tried the terms and they were just thumb tight.

I've had another one in the past where there was a leaking HW cylinder above making the wall wet below this made the wall extremely hot as the water conducted from a hidden jb within plaster.

 

[nozspark]

That cable coming in from the left in the first pic looks suspiciously shiney,,,,, is it lead sheath????

 

[Click-Sure]

Its really quite a common thing to see in kitchens.

Its the whole reason Part P came in. (tin hat on, hiding under kitchen table for cover)