My sister owns a cottage, one of two converted in 1987 from a row of 4 farmworkers cottages in Scotland.
The electrical supply comes in near the middle of the row, i.e. at the end of her cottage that is nearest her neighbour. Her neighbour has been complaining of supply problems and Scottish Power have sent an engineer who reportedly has said that the supply comes into my sisters property then is looped by cable under the floor into the neighbours property. This cable is said to be very old (1987?) and need to be replaced by a new cable that would run up her wall into the loft then into the neighbours property down the wall to the meter.
It seems odd that a supply cable could be looped internally between two otherwise independent properties. Can anyone advise what are the rules covering this?
It also seems very odd that a problem with the cable on the supply side could be causing problems in one property but not in the other, or indeed the whole area.
