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Jeanette1964
Hello, I don't know if anybody can give me some advice but if you could it would be very much appreciated! I am having an extension built on a house I bought last year. It has turned out that the electricity board about 40 years ago looped the mains electricity for my neighbour and a number of other house through my meter. I understand it is something they used to do to save money on wiring. Yesterday my builder accidentally cut through the mains wire with the digger as he was working on the drains and had no idea the wire was there. It turned out that the wire had been buried only about 100mil below ground level, in fact it was immediately below the concrete. The day before my builder had been removing the concrete with a hand digger, so he is currently feeling very lucky to still be here. I will no doubt get a bill from the electricity board as they had to come out to reconnect all my neighbours to the mains (didn't bother to reconnect me of course, so had to get my own electrician in). I just wondered whether anybody knows whether I would be able to hold the electricity mains supplier responsible for the dangerous laying of the wiring - I know it is definitely outside of building regs? Could I insist that they come and remove the loop from my mains electricity so I don't have my neighbours electricity coming through my house? I couldn't get any sensible answers from the electrician that came out as he was remarkably unhelpful! Any advice very much appreciated!