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    Filling in old unused socket holes (with wiring)

    Someone on another forum had this suggestion: "Were the flats originally built with electric heating? The unused holes might have been for switches or thermostats for that system. In fact that looks very likely as the rounded outline for whatever was fitted on the upper socket (round box) looks...
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    Filling in old unused socket holes (with wiring)

    Ah ok, thanks.
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    Filling in old unused socket holes (with wiring)

    I may well be saying something wrong, it was many months ago. Is there some requirement that all kitchen appliances should be killed off with a single switch/fuse? It may have been that. I don't think that's currently the case.
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    Filling in old unused socket holes (with wiring)

    Thanks for the additional info. The conduits are buried in the concrete floor (it's the upstairs bedroom of a maisonette, although there is a similar unused, plated-over socket in the downstairs lounge), and within the plaster of the wall (or, seeing as it's quite deep, possibly within a channel...
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    Filling in old unused socket holes (with wiring)

    Thanks for your reply. It's a cement floor (2-floor maisonette, fuse board on ground floor, the room in question is an upstairs bedroom). I'll buy a tool to test whether the wires are live, might provide some clarity..
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    Filling in old unused socket holes (with wiring)

    Hello, This is my first post and I hope it's ok to ask for advice even though I'm not an electrician. The forum rules don't seem to preclude this, but if I've got it wrong, I apologise in advance. I'm renovating a 60s-era flat. The electrical wiring is in conduits embedded inside the walls...

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