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Is that the guts of an old thorn 8ft brings me back to the first few months of my apprenticeship taking down these old lumps and replacing them with 6fts and I mean lumps just about a 2 man lift to get the bloody thing down:screamcat:
Well, this is under the upstairs floor board and two cables come out, they felt cold and are metal, never seen anything like it. These metal cables go to the end of a roof end, loft. (It is a bungalow) they end up in junction boxes that go nowhere else. Diconnected
 
I’d disconnect the bonding and the bare earths from the board and do an R2 on the bare earth from the end at the board to ensure its complete and then again at the bit your going to connect into and to the board itself and then the pipes themselves just to rule out that the bare earth was coming from elsewhere I reckon if you do that you’ve pretty much proved beyond reasonable doubt that the earth is suitable and actually coming from the CU and not the pipes or anywhere else.
 
Well, this is under the upstairs floor board and two cables come out, they felt cold and are metal, never seen anything like it. These metal cables go to the end of a roof end, loft. (It is a bungalow) they end up in junction boxes that go nowhere else. Diconnected
Old lead cables probably wonderful stuff :rolleyes: the rest of the cables in the house aren’t lead are they?
 

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