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Kate
Only time ive ever done it is to get from floor to floor usually on a rewire. But my preferred option is to find a cupboard and use trunking instead
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Thats not dot and dab. Just plastered.
What if there is no other easy way of getting cables between floors?? I disagree with anyone who thinks this electrician did wrong. The regs clearly state within 150mm of a corner and they have complied with this
Only time ive ever done it is to get from floor to floor usually on a rewire. But my preferred option is to find a cupboard and use trunking instead
I'm not criticising the fact the cables needed to be put there, my point is that there were hidden with no external box identifying that they were running along this line. For a layman like myself I was unaware of the 150mm rule and have only looked for sockets etc and avoided vertical or horizontal lines to them.
Looking at the picture only, are you sure there was not a heating control on that wall where the temporary junction box is?
I only ask due to the cable capping being cut so well, height of it, spacing of it, location of it, the holes in the wall are the same shape/size of a back box fitting. Also why did your electrician start taking off plaster at that point and not at the holes you have drilled level to the shelving brackets?
Cable faults via drilling through plaster we normally look at the point where it was drilled, not a foot above it? Then we repair it where it is damaged using different methods suitable to the fault. Never seen a "drilling fault" fixed by randomly taking off plaster a foot above and installing a junction box??
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