rendering over overhead electric cables

[newbie99]

He isnt interested. My power would go and I have a child who is diabetic so we have to keep insulin etc.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

And what is the view of cables buried in render that have have metal shrouding over them, still just as dangerous?

Logically speaking, I would have guessed so - so long as builders and DIYers have grinders, SDS drills and big hammers and chisels

While neither method is permitted, covering in metal, I would say, is even more dangerous.

Hmm.

I had assumed that although rendered over, the capped cables were still "visible", i.e. the hump(s) of the metal covers were still plainly visible, just rendered over. Sort of like painted with very thick Sandtex.

Not sure why.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

He isnt interested.

He will be when he's gripping the rail.

Or when the DNO arrive and start the process of regularising the situation at his expense.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Hi,
I was wondering about rendering over overhead cables. The cables on my house run from my neighbours property along a wall. My cables have a metal shrouding over them then render.

Some photos would be interesting.

Are you saying that the overhead supply runs to your neighbour's house, and where it reaches the wall it splits, and then "your" cables and "his" cables run along the outside of the wall of his house?

And "yours" have some kind of metal capping, and then render? Did you render over them? Were they like that when you bought the place?

My neighbour has recently covered his but he has rendered straight to the cable. Is this legal and will it be ok or cause problems?

How/why did he render over "his" and not "yours"?