Hi and apologies in advance for probably a stupid question, I admit to being clueless.
We have just filled in a pond in the garden of our new house and there is a socket on the side of our raised decking with an old broken pump/filter thingy that used to be in the pond (previous owner) attached to it.
We don't want to use this socket, and would like it to be safe/non-live (if that's a thing?!) because our young children will be playing in that area. But we didn't want to remove it in case we want to use it in future (and expense/disruption of removing it I guess too) We had decided to kind of 'box it in' by building a box/ bench seat around it onto the side of the decking.
So before the box goes on, my husband has removed the fuse from the socket. The old pump is still attached to the socket by wires which he says we can now just cut with wire cutters then we are all good to go with the bench. I am sure there's more to it and we will need a professional to do something to the socket/wires to make it safe, but I need someone who knows about this stuff to tell me loosely what needs to be done so I don't just sound like an over-cautious paranoid mother. Or am I wrong? As you can tell we both know nothing about electrics. Can someone help?
Thanks in advance if you can.
We have just filled in a pond in the garden of our new house and there is a socket on the side of our raised decking with an old broken pump/filter thingy that used to be in the pond (previous owner) attached to it.
We don't want to use this socket, and would like it to be safe/non-live (if that's a thing?!) because our young children will be playing in that area. But we didn't want to remove it in case we want to use it in future (and expense/disruption of removing it I guess too) We had decided to kind of 'box it in' by building a box/ bench seat around it onto the side of the decking.
So before the box goes on, my husband has removed the fuse from the socket. The old pump is still attached to the socket by wires which he says we can now just cut with wire cutters then we are all good to go with the bench. I am sure there's more to it and we will need a professional to do something to the socket/wires to make it safe, but I need someone who knows about this stuff to tell me loosely what needs to be done so I don't just sound like an over-cautious paranoid mother. Or am I wrong? As you can tell we both know nothing about electrics. Can someone help?
Thanks in advance if you can.
