Hi, when I removed the old airing cupboard from my house, I discovered an live power cable under the floor of the cupboard. I've spent some time now trying to figure out what it's wired into but it only appears to go dead after I kill all the power to the house, either by the master switch or all the circuit breakers.
I have 5 in the MCB, 5/5/20/32/32 amps, 2x lighting, boiler, oven and ring main as I'd expect, it seems to be feeding power from both the lighting and ring main, disabling the ring main reduces the power of the signal I get from my power tester, while the boiler and oven circuits seem to have no effect, turning off the lighting by themselves does not kill the power to the cable.
I'm getting quite concerned because the cable was left in a very dangerous state when I found it, live and with bare wire exposed, clearly no attempt was made to make it safe. I'd like to find where it's connected and remove it. Is there any ideas how this might be wired in? I'm assuming it used to be used for an immersion heater.
Following the cable under the floor, it takes a left turn, which passes two sockets, I've disconnected both with no effect. one of the sockets has a spur but I'm not sure where to. If it carries on it may go right back to the MCB but short of pulling up carpet and floorboards I've no way of knowing.
I have 5 in the MCB, 5/5/20/32/32 amps, 2x lighting, boiler, oven and ring main as I'd expect, it seems to be feeding power from both the lighting and ring main, disabling the ring main reduces the power of the signal I get from my power tester, while the boiler and oven circuits seem to have no effect, turning off the lighting by themselves does not kill the power to the cable.
I'm getting quite concerned because the cable was left in a very dangerous state when I found it, live and with bare wire exposed, clearly no attempt was made to make it safe. I'd like to find where it's connected and remove it. Is there any ideas how this might be wired in? I'm assuming it used to be used for an immersion heater.
Following the cable under the floor, it takes a left turn, which passes two sockets, I've disconnected both with no effect. one of the sockets has a spur but I'm not sure where to. If it carries on it may go right back to the MCB but short of pulling up carpet and floorboards I've no way of knowing.