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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.

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

    In  a word, YES, -  and I'm not being provocative here, there really has to be a small residual risk we accept or we cannot use electricity. In the same way every time I drive there is a small risk of a fatal car accident - now I do my best to avoid one of course, and I have so far, but I cannot guarantee zero failures either on my part or the parts of others.  Now that wiring is bad, and as it overheats. potentially dangerous, but short of X-raying every cable route, you cannot inspect to see if there is something like that without dismantling and rewiring the building for each inspection.

    I agree the experienced eye/nose often decides to look into something on a hunch and that pays off, but there we tend not to record the occasions where nothing is found and now we are late to the next task.

    Mike

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

    In  a word, YES, -  and I'm not being provocative here, there really has to be a small residual risk we accept or we cannot use electricity. In the same way every time I drive there is a small risk of a fatal car accident - now I do my best to avoid one of course, and I have so far, but I cannot guarantee zero failures either on my part or the parts of others.  Now that wiring is bad, and as it overheats. potentially dangerous, but short of X-raying every cable route, you cannot inspect to see if there is something like that without dismantling and rewiring the building for each inspection.

    I agree the experienced eye/nose often decides to look into something on a hunch and that pays off, but there we tend not to record the occasions where nothing is found and now we are late to the next task.

    Mike

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