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Nice one!!:eek:
At least you have bonding to the gas!
Must be about 1950's for the wooden box or at least the squared fuses.
How do people manage not to die?

Bonding was in to the water too surprisingly.

It was the metal switches with cracked conductor insulation and no cpc that scared me most. The family had been lucky. They said they had replaced the fuse wire a few times in the last 6 months due to it blowing.
 
Just as it is illegal put a vehicle on the road without it having a current MOT certificate, has the time arrived for it to also be illegal to put a house on the market without a recent satisfactory Electrical Installation Condition Report?

Given that there are few homeowners who ever bother to have their installations inspected and tested every 10 years as recommended, should they not be required by law to maintain their installations in a safe condition, or, at the very least, be compelled to have an EICR carried-out on their property before they can legally sell it?
 
Just as it is illegal put a vehicle on the road without it having a current MOT certificate, has the time arrived for it to also be illegal to put a house on the market without a recent satisfactory Electrical Installation Condition Report?

Given that there are few homeowners who ever bother to have their installations inspected and tested every 10 years as recommended, should they not be required by law to maintain their installations in a safe condition, or, at the very least, be compelled to have an EICR carried-out on their property before they can legally sell it?
All home insurance companies need to do is make it part of the policies.
 
Just as it is illegal put a vehicle on the road without it having a current MOT certificate, has the time arrived for it to also be illegal to put a house on the market without a recent satisfactory Electrical Installation Condition Report?

Given that there are few homeowners who ever bother to have their installations inspected and tested every 10 years as recommended, should they not be required by law to maintain their installations in a safe condition, or, at the very least, be compelled to have an EICR carried-out on their property before they can legally sell it?

You can't make it a legal requirement to have an eicr carried out because the eicr is a part of a non-statutory standard.
The first step in this process would be to make the wiring regulations a legal requirement, which is a pretty tall order now.
 
i'd cut out a square of ceiling, splice in a new cable drop, so the joint is then above ceiling. can then be enclosed in a M/F box if you want.
 
I was lucky enough to cut a square in the ceiling at the opposite side of the kitchen. Grabbed the cable and pulled it back. (Closer to the CU). In essence making it longer so I could chop off the damaged part.

Tel... I am unaware of a MF joint box for 6mm. The J803 boxes accept up to 4mm. If someone could recommend a product that would be great.

James
 
or use crimps or solder with heat shrink.
 
this 1.5mm was fine till d*ckhead builder squashed it behind a RSJ. 2 hours of fault finding to locate after being boarded over.

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after getting several sub 1 ohm L-e readings around the circuit, finally ame to end of line and got 0.07 ohms. so i says to Simon " fault is approx 2m away. when we cut into the board and pulled the cable out, it was 1. 8m from the end.
 

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