DNO cable to head flopping around next to a bed

[Other_Tucker]

I found this in a property today, I've never seen the incoming cable to the head (above and the other side of this wall) just dangling in free space before, in a bedroom. It's normally in a wall cavity right?

Boss said note it on the MWEIC, would you guys feel you had too notify someone

?

 

[davesparks]

That is certainly unusual.

Looking at the state of the wall and the odd alcove is it possible that this room didn't start out as a bedroom and some sort of dodgy conversion has been done to the property?

 

[Other_Tucker]

Definitely, I've been testing a number of houses in this terraced close with the same building layout, this is the only one like this.

The flat square is the back of the gas meter cupboard with the electric meter cupboard above. It's like they've taken out one wall of a double brick cavity wall. It's not safe or is it? It feels very wrong what do you think?

 

[davesparks]

What about the tube with what looks like a red cloth in it, where does that go?

I agree something looks dodgy here, but I think it may be more of a local authority planning department/building control/housing issue than a simple DNO matter.

 

[Other_Tucker]

What about the tube with what looks like a red cloth in it, where does that go?

I agree something looks dodgy here, but I think it may be more of a local authority planning department/building control/housing issue than a simple DNO matter.

I thought those looked like eyes and red lips off of a sock puppet.

I was surveying loft cabling for a large housing estate, before they put 300mm of new insulation on top of the original disintegrating red/black 1.0mm t&e, derating it. Almost every house I could have reported to local authority / building control / housing / DWP / immigration for something.

But that's not my place, if I see something electrically worrying outside my remit I'd mention it but this seemed like a DNO based problem no?

 

[Ursanelec]

I've worked on a link detached old terraced house before where the wall where the meter was mounted on on the outside was single skin brick wall. The customer was doing some refurbishment in the property and upon removing some mortar on that wall he could see the back of the meter box in his living room. Very odd