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Hello
Looking for a bit of advice.
I live in a flat and the upstairs neighbours had an unarmoured electric cable running from their house down the property wall and across my pathway. I asked them to look at it as live and unarmoured and they got someone in who has put armoured cabling in directly from their flat to their shed. The new cable now runs through the air across my garden and is a complete eye sore. Would the electrician fitting it have assumed they had saught my consent before installing this new cable and can iI ask them to remove it?
 
Do you own the garden or is it a 'shared' garden?
If it is yours then they would have to ask you your permission to run the cable over your property.
 
Hello
Looking for a bit of advice.
I live in a flat and the upstairs neighbours had an unarmoured electric cable running from their house down the property wall and across my pathway. I asked them to look at it as live and unarmoured and they got someone in who has put armoured cabling in directly from their flat to their shed. The new cable now runs through the air across my garden and is a complete eye sore. Would the electrician fitting it have assumed they had saught my consent before installing this new cable and can iI ask them to remove it?
An armoured cable suspended, how long is the span from here it leaves the building to the Shed, has the " electrician"
Installed a support cable as well? for someone who is non electrical the support cable should be a Steele wire referred to as a Catenary wire, from where I am sitting it seems like a job from bill down the Pub. Yes he should have asked you if it was OK to traverse your Garden in my opinion.
 
Its about 7 meters in length from where it leaves the building to the shed. There was an old cable there before that ran across my path (un armoured) and pre-dated me moving in which I asked them to get looked at as a hazard dangling inches above my head, but now this has been put in without my consent.

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They should have asked permission in my opinion. I also think it would be better with a vertical post at the shed end to raise that end a few feet.

Do you get on with the neighbours? Can you approach them?
 
That doesn't look like 3.5 meters off the ground to me..


708.521.1.2 Overhead distribution circuits

All overhead conductors shall be insulated.
Poles and other supports for overhead wiring shall be located or protected so that they are unlikely to be damaged
by any foreseeable vehicle movement.
Overhead conductors shall be at a height above ground of not less than 6 m in all areas subject to vehicle movement
and 3.5 m in all other areas.
 
I've asked the neighbours to move it. They were understandably not very happy having spent money getting this new cable put in. No confirmation this will be done yet. I don't mind if it comes along and down the wall and is then dug under the path into their garden but I really can't have it where it is.
 
Where is there shed in next doors garden or do they also have a garden adjacent to yours, that install is wrong and is on or in your property, I'd get them to move if as it could easily get damaged and may cause you issues.
 
Putting the electrical questions to one side; your clearly not happy with it (who would be), I would get some legal advice, Citizen Advice Bureau would be a starting point.

I'm with SWD, curious to know the set up here; your ground floor flat, neighbour is 1st floor flat, and they have a shed in an adjacent property?
 
I agree with the above posts...it would have been better using either a post or dug underground (its gravel after all)..it looks like its been cut too short !! As for the electrician, he/she may have assumed all was agreed beforehand. If that was the case, the neighbour should cough up to have it rerouted via jcn box and join the extra cable length required.
 
There are 3 flats and we are all freeholders of each property (old converted house). The lease doesn't detail - just says all responsible to maintain cables etc for our property. However it has been implemented across my private garden.

The flat upstairs has a garden behind mine reached by a walkway at the side of the building so this is the most direct route to run a cable, however it could be run from the side of the house and along their private path into their garden.

Big thanks for everyone for their advice :))
 
Looks like there is some sort of catenary wire, but kie the others not 3.5m obove ground, if you don't mind them burying the cable then suggest that to them.
 
There are 3 flats and we are all freeholders of each property (old converted house). The lease doesn't detail - just says all responsible to maintain cables etc for our property. However it has been implemented across my private garden.

The flat upstairs has a garden behind mine reached by a walkway at the side of the building so this is the most direct route to run a cable, however it could be run from the side of the house and along their private path into their garden.

Big thanks for everyone for their advice :))

Do think you need to seek legal advice, we can only offer advice on the installation. From experience, one question, you might get asked is who granted permission for the original installation. Any access required by yourself or neighbours to carry out maintenance on respective properties has to be declared in conveyancing and/or title deeds.
 
Ask your neighbour for a copy of the Electrical Installation Certificate, EIC, that will make his bum go sixpence, shilling, half a crown, cus pound to a pinch of the brown stuff he aint got one and as it crosses your land?????? it could cause you harm if it fell down and injured someone, then the brown stuff would be doing aerobatics.
 
Steel catenary wire onto a wooden shed? Not very secure. Never mind the electricity, permissions and lack of height.
One day the fixing of the cat wire will come free of the wood.
What have they got in there anyway? Just a light I bet.
The neighbours will be ignorant of any regulations, and its just polite to ask permission first.
Sounds like the 'electrician' is ignorant of the regs too.
 
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Its about 7 meters in length from where it leaves the building to the shed. There was an old cable there before that ran across my path (un armoured) and pre-dated me moving in which I asked them to get looked at as a hazard dangling inches above my head, but now this has been put in without my consent.

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Your neighbour sounds like a bit of a dork, me I would stick it to him big time, make him sweat, what an idiot to think he could get away with doing that, take him to task Paula, good job I aint in the vicinity, old as I am.
 
So I gave them access to the garden for someone to come and have a look at the issue, but they went ahead the same day and had the work done without consulting me as to what they were going to do.

Quick Q: Does anyone know if outside electric work like this needs to be notified and tested by a qualified person?

Its a good point about the fact that there was already a cable there before I or the people upstairs moved in. It had been there 7 years and I though nothing much of it apart until someone pointed out to me that if it's live it needs to be insulated. surely if someone previously had granted access across my property it should be detailed in updated deeds?

I will also for a copy of the electrical installation Certificate. Just waiting to see what they reply with first.

It's just a cable going into the shed for a light.
 

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