Evening All,
I attended a job today to disconnect an Alarm System at a ground floor flat. On taking the consumer unit front off, discovered the incoming neutral tail to be 11 x 1.5mm single core cables which needless to say aren't all tight and secure in terminals. The incoming line looks to be 25mm 6181y albeit without the grey sheath. The main earth is 4 x what looks like 4mm solid core. They all come into the board in 1 grey sheath then split off.
Traced back, at some point in the flats roof it connects to an SWA ( point of connection is not accessible ) then back to a switch fuse with 80a fuse.
I dont think its an option to run any new cables ( which is my ideal method to sort issue) as its all in ceiling void with no obvious access but I am exploring this possibility with the flats owner/ building maintenance people.
The only option I can think that might help is heat shrink round the cables and ferrule the end but im not really happy with it.
Has anyone seen this before? Any ideas what's the thinking behind it? And what I can do make it safe?
I attended a job today to disconnect an Alarm System at a ground floor flat. On taking the consumer unit front off, discovered the incoming neutral tail to be 11 x 1.5mm single core cables which needless to say aren't all tight and secure in terminals. The incoming line looks to be 25mm 6181y albeit without the grey sheath. The main earth is 4 x what looks like 4mm solid core. They all come into the board in 1 grey sheath then split off.
Traced back, at some point in the flats roof it connects to an SWA ( point of connection is not accessible ) then back to a switch fuse with 80a fuse.
I dont think its an option to run any new cables ( which is my ideal method to sort issue) as its all in ceiling void with no obvious access but I am exploring this possibility with the flats owner/ building maintenance people.
The only option I can think that might help is heat shrink round the cables and ferrule the end but im not really happy with it.
Has anyone seen this before? Any ideas what's the thinking behind it? And what I can do make it safe?