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ELECTRICAL INSTALLATION CONDITION REPORT. LIMITATIONS.

Page 519 of B.S. 7671 18th Edition.

We do not normally inspect cables hidden under floorboards, concealed in walls or in roof spaces. Perhaps we should despite the disruption. I have just carried out an inspection and test of an old bungalow where Mr. Bodger was the previous owner. I have found many horrors. I had to dismantle some woodwork in the corner of a room where the cupboard contained numerous dangerous horrors, including the item pictured below. It supplied an immersion heater in the loft. I had to gain access to the cupboard to extend cables and provide correct junction boxes to replace choc-block joints.

Z.

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  • If you don't look under the floorboards, how could you possibly see the nail holes and rodent damage to the cables? Provided the terminals stayed a hair's breadth apart in that little horror, who would know?

    P.S. If you have AFDDs, they might have to stay at least a couple of hair's breadths apart.

  • And perhaps underfloor smoke detectors eh. Chris? I2R heating.

    Z.

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