Safety Electrical Connection tower badge come off

[tonysab]

Hi - my wife found the attached badge on the floor yesterday, I think our new kittens had got down behind the fridge so suspect they may know something about it! To prevent frazzled kitten we've blocked off their route now but a dumb question - the badge states "do not remove" - I assume it means do not remove the thing it was attached to, as opposed to the badge itself? I can't think lokking at the badge what or how it could have been attached to - my only guess is a wire that I think we have running behind the appliances which was put in when we had some work done a while back - not even sure if it was an earth wire or what, I'll have a look later but are these things normally attached to wires/cables? Thanks.

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• tonysab
• 19 Jun 2012
• 1

 

[DetlefSchmitz]

It's normally attached to a clamp round the cold water pipe close to the main stop cock. This connection is supposed to be labelled, so 'not removing' applies to both the label and the connection. It's a connection between your main earthing terminal (near the consumer unit) and this colder water pipe. (It could alternatively apply to a gas or oil pipe entering the house.)

Of course it may just be a spare, dropped one.

 

[mikhailfaradayski]

You are quite correct, its just a label telling you not to remove a clamp or the wire connected to it, which you would find adjacent to your water stop cock or gas meter.

It does concern me a little that the intervention of a kitten could cause this to fall off. I would suggest you locate the place it came from and just ensure the rest of the clamp/connection hasn't dropped to bits aswell.

 

[tonysab]

Thank you, that makes sense, I'll check it out later.

 

[OwainDIYer]

And we want a photo of the kittens ...

 

[tonysab]

And we want a photo of the kittens ...

LOL, here they are!

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• tonysab
• 19 Jun 2012
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[bernardgreen]

They are kittens now. Wait till they get bigger and then the CATastrophies will start to happen.