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ELECTRICAL INSTALLATION CONDITION REPORT. LIMITATIONS.

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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 ii is not found on inspection - and a cost -effective inspection is always going to be limited at some point- unless you more or less rewire, and that introduces another prblem of errors/damage due to excessive dismantling and re-assembly.. then it will stay in service, no worse than if the inspection never happened, until it either stops working and fails open or short circuit, or causes another problem such as an electric shock or a small fire. As generally these last two are luckily rare, the balance of probability is in favour of not worrying too much.

    This example has reached melting polyethylene temps - perhaps 150-180c but presumably apart from the pong did not ignite anything in particular  beyond a casual singe?

    Mike

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    "...until it either stops working and fails open or short circuit, or causes another problem such as an electric shock or a small fire."

    So a small fire" is o.k.is it Mike?

    Where the horror was located it may have caught fire to dust and other dry fine combustibles.

    This horror may not be detected by our normal methods of testing. That concerns me.

    Z.

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  • in reply to mapj1

    "...until it either stops working and fails open or short circuit, or causes another problem such as an electric shock or a small fire."

    So a small fire" is o.k.is it Mike?

    Where the horror was located it may have caught fire to dust and other dry fine combustibles.

    This horror may not be detected by our normal methods of testing. That concerns me.

    Z.

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