For anyone in a similar boat and Googling this in years to come -
We called UK power, explained the situation and they came out and removed the wire within a week.
It was the old mains electricity supply, three pretty think looking copper cables shielded by bitumen type stuff and lead... They...
I guess it could be, we’re far from experts lol
We assumed based on it being next to the fuse box and it’s also got some brown looking fabric coming out the end of the stump.
We do have a blue pipe and stopcock much further into the back of the house.
The house was built in 1880, so I’m sure...
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We’re currently having drainage Installed in our back garden, when the guys digging up concrete next to house came across what looks like a lead covered cable.
They followed it along by digging up the area around it, until it entered a brick in the house, this is where the cable ends (see...
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