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Main service cables hidden

RustyH

Evening All, 

 Came across this today and wondered what people's thoughts were.

An old terreced property had a single story extension at some point. Prior to the extension, I assume the main service cables ran up the outside wall and through to the meter above the back door. 

The extension was built, I assume, over/around these cables. Today I came across them hidden under the plaster above the door (opposite side of the meter, where they would have ran above the outside door before the extension).

These should surely be protected, anyone drilling through them will have no protection device to protect them!

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    Thanks for all the replies on this.

    As identified, I will take the recommended route of putting some form of visual reference to the cabling. Wide trunking is my immediate thought, ensuring its protruding from the finished plaster level

  • 0 in reply to RustyH

    I did that in the back of a pantry - sloped wall running on underside of staircase. Cable clipped left to right and unprotected. So , a bit of trunking neatly horizontal to protect cable and warn of cable presence.

    couple of weeks later I returned to find they`d got a plasterer to put a plaster coat over the whole lot therefore burying the cable just below the surface and no zone of protection warning. I give up!

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  • 0 in reply to RustyH

    I did that in the back of a pantry - sloped wall running on underside of staircase. Cable clipped left to right and unprotected. So , a bit of trunking neatly horizontal to protect cable and warn of cable presence.

    couple of weeks later I returned to find they`d got a plasterer to put a plaster coat over the whole lot therefore burying the cable just below the surface and no zone of protection warning. I give up!

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