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as above. fitted a wall cabinet. drilled , plugged and screwed directly above mid point od a double socket. what a muppet. esp. as the cabinet brackets could easily be moved a couple of inches.

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Don't complain...it keeps you in beer tokens!

On the landing of our house, the previous people stuck a nail about 12" directly above a light switch..Luckily it is patrician wall and the T&E wasn't hanging dead vertical otherwise they would have nailed it!
 
Don't complain...it keeps you in beer tokens!

On the landing of our house, the previous people stuck a nail about 12" directly above a light switch..Luckily it is patrician wall and the T&E wasn't hanging dead vertical otherwise they would have nailed it!
Crikey Pete I thought you were on about my Wife, her name is Patricia.:Do_O:rolleyes::)
 
prepped ready to crimp and heat shrink:

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managed to pull a couple of inches slack from above.
 
it would seem that logics dictate cables go straight up/down/left/right. we all know that. trouble is that some other trades can't see anything beyond their own incompetence. ( and that excludes the other trades that have a brain, some are good, some bad, some indifferent, and some should have been smothered at birth).
 
Try this one on for size ... Bloody Wood Butchers. IMG_0243.JPG - EletriciansForums.net ... screw in 'free' space, not fixing anything, ~ 15 - 20 mm from the edge of the edge of the back box hole and roughly vertically in line with where the cable sheath and conductor insulation has been breached! Lath and screw 'plastered' over with 'new' white plaster ... certainly not the original lime plaster!Bloody Wood Butchers. IMG_0245.JPG - EletriciansForums.net
... and then there is the 'stripping' damage to the insulation on the other side of the Line conductor! If I remember correctly that was the 'load' cable. It was not connected to anything ... but the 'supply' cable was connected to a MCB @ the Distribution Board.
 
Try this one on for size ... View attachment 40551 ... screw in 'free' space, not fixing anything, ~ 15 - 20 mm from the edge of the edge of the back box hole and roughly vertically in line with where the cable sheath and conductor insulation has been breached! Lath and screw 'plastered' over with 'new' white plaster ... certainly not the original lime plaster!View attachment 40552
... and then there is the 'stripping' damage to the insulation on the other side of the Line conductor! If I remember correctly that was the 'load' cable. It was not connected to anything ... but the 'supply' cable was connected to a MCB @ the Distribution Board.
Looks like the electrician stripping those cables had a bit of a mishap with the red conductor, more than likely he was using a Stanley type knife.
 
Pity the regs aren't written to protect the 'ordinary bloke in the street'.
Many people don't understand cables - or just never think about them.
So we hide them away, buried in walls , with no protection if they are in the 'regulation prescribed zones', cos of course everyone knows about these don't they? Now of course we have RCD protection required, but this won't work for an unearthed capping - I wouldn't like to test a 30mA RCD by holding a nail and belting it into a live conductor. I still think all hidden cables in walls should have earthed metallic protection! ( just a fad of mine ).

John.
 
Looks like the electrician stripping those cables had a bit of a mishap with the red conductor, more than likely he was using a Stanley type knife.

Clearly ... if I remember correctly, it may have been wrapped in insulation tape that had come 'loose' due presumably to 'aged' adhesive! Do you not think that it was unacceptable to leave it as is or even if wrapped? Surely it should have been cut off and terminated safely if there was enough 'spare' cable to do so ... and if not a new length should have been 'pulled in'?
 
Try this one on for size ... View attachment 40551 ... screw in 'free' space, not fixing anything, ~ 15 - 20 mm from the edge of the edge of the back box hole and roughly vertically in line with where the cable sheath and conductor insulation has been breached! Lath and screw 'plastered' over with 'new' white plaster ... certainly not the original lime plaster!View attachment 40552
... and then there is the 'stripping' damage to the insulation on the other side of the Line conductor! If I remember correctly that was the 'load' cable. It was not connected to anything ... but the 'supply' cable was connected to a MCB @ the Distribution Board.
jeez. that wallpaper is atrocious.
 

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