I welcome any advice about the problems that happen when removing redundant large mineral insulated cable as in photo.
It runs from the meter location in the adjacent shop to feed the two consumer units in my cottage.
It is four core, one pair 24/7 and the other off peak for storage heaters.
Isolation at the meter end is not a problem but removal of the cable might be.
It is terminated at the meter location in the same way with the two side ports plumbed into two large metal switch fuse boxes. These are about 3 inches below the ceiling in a crowded store cupboard in a very cramped office area. The cable goes vertically through the ceiling of the shop into the space under my floor boards.
Do I cut the pipe and pull the end up through the ceiling and risk spilling the mineral dust into the cupboard ? or do I remove the tails but leave the screw on cup in place and hope it will get through the hole in the ceiling without too much enlargement of the hole.
It has to be removed completely as my new supply is PME and the shop is TT so no metallic links between cottage and shop can be permitted. ( that earthing compromise again )
It runs from the meter location in the adjacent shop to feed the two consumer units in my cottage.
It is four core, one pair 24/7 and the other off peak for storage heaters.
Isolation at the meter end is not a problem but removal of the cable might be.
It is terminated at the meter location in the same way with the two side ports plumbed into two large metal switch fuse boxes. These are about 3 inches below the ceiling in a crowded store cupboard in a very cramped office area. The cable goes vertically through the ceiling of the shop into the space under my floor boards.
Do I cut the pipe and pull the end up through the ceiling and risk spilling the mineral dust into the cupboard ? or do I remove the tails but leave the screw on cup in place and hope it will get through the hole in the ceiling without too much enlargement of the hole.
It has to be removed completely as my new supply is PME and the shop is TT so no metallic links between cottage and shop can be permitted. ( that earthing compromise again )