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[freddo]

edit.
the blue is actually a N so I presume the same person has connected both ends.

The outgoing circuit isn't much better! It can't be that hard to match the colours together!

 

[Mike Johnson]

Yep

If you drop down a fancy light fitting , then 99% of the time you will find choc block connections and shoved up the hole

Sometimes even with a twist of two of masking tape

So what did we use before Wago's

 

[ipf]

So what did we use before Wago's

Ashley J201 and flex, for me.

 

[Raptor0014]

I’m darn sarf this weekend doing a board change and EV charger install. Client wanted the board changing as there were no spare ways for the charger, no surge protection, no room for a smaller CU next to it and can’t have an external CU as the cutout is below the board.

Apart from this board being in a ridiculous place at the top of a larder unit above the false ceiling. I do like how whoever put this in thought it prudent to run one leg of a kitchen ring circuit through the board. The mind boggles as to why.

But at least they used intumescent grommets.

 

[Dustydazzler]

See , if that was a plastic consumers unit you could whack it was a hammer and remove the board in 2 sections leaving the cable intact. Now you have to disconnect the cable or cut and join it.

Blooming metal boards , bring back plastic I say

 

[Mike Johnson]

Decent pair of tin snips will sort that or a metal blade in a multitool, to cut the CU not the cable.

 

[telectrix]

Decent pair of tin snips will sort that or a metal blade in a multitool, to cut the CU not the cable.

multitool will take ages on steel. use an angle grinder.

 

[DPG]

I'd go with tin snips up to the grommet hole, and then bend the metal down.

 

[SparkySy]

multitool will take ages on steel. use an angle grinder.

And be really really noisy too!

 

[Dustydazzler]

As above , just mangle the grommet hole with some sharp tins snips then bash the ---- out of it to bend the cut ends down out the way

 

[Mike Johnson]

How many different ways can we all say the same thing, sincerest form of flattery (Oscar Wilde)

 

[Moley]

What's wrong with cutting the cable, re-join with a 1 amp choc block and wrap in sellotape?

 

[Raptor0014]

What's wrong with cutting the cable, re-join with a 1 amp choc block and wrap in sellotape?

Low tack masking tape is better. Makes it easier to get into if repairs are needed.

Always thinking of the next bloke.

 

[brianmoooore]

Cut it, connect to the MCB and make it into two rings on the same circuit.

 

[littlespark]

What are you faffing with tape for?
A big blob of blu tac round the choc box

 

[loz2754]

Leave the board in place and mount the new one in front of it

 

[Dustydazzler]

You guys are doing it all wrong

cut the cable using a pair of rough old pliers , mangle the cores by twisting them back together remembering to twist the life out of them so no man can ever get them apart and then wind some black gaffa tape round the lot

Job done

 

[Moley]

cut the cable using a pair of rough old pliers

What's wrong with a scissors?

 

[JBW175]

Had an emergency call out this morning, a builder who’s installing a drain chopped through the SWA supplying the garden shed. Knocked out half the supply to the street, DNO engineer arrived promptly and changed one of the fuses down the sub station. Circuit isolated and power restored.

In the builder’s defence, the cable wasn’t buried the correct depth and was just beneath the slabs, but you can clearly see where the cable enters the ground so he should have checked prior to cutting.

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UPDATE

Just been round to price up repairing this job.

and,

It cost the client an extra days pay with the builder who cut through the cable as he was too traumatised to work for a day…

Bloody builders, You couldn’t make it up.

 

[Raptor0014]

This is in a bathroom of all places. Taping of the CPC was a nice touch.

But allegedly wasn’t a DIY effort….