Advice after drilling through electrical cable above plug socket

[Deleted account]

True or not it's a good antidote.

Antidote or anecdote

 

[Toneyz]

Antidote or anecdote

You know what I meant.

 

[w0z]

Hi all,

I have stupidly drilled through the same electrical cable TWICE 1 inch apart. This is above a twin plug socket which obviously now doesn’t work. The holes are about 1m above the socket.

As a temporary measure I was going to connect the wires individually with Wago connectors but the 2 whole problem has thrown me!

Will it be okay to replace the broken part of the cable and use wagos at each end?

Or is it better to replace cable from the break to the plug socket (so just one set of connectors being used?) Is it a case of attaching a new cable to the end of the old one and greasing / pulling through the socket?

Hope all that makes sense. Advice much appreciated!

If I've understood this correctly you're saying the socket only has one cable in it, yet your holes were an inch apart and yet you drilled through the same cable twice? So you drilled one hole then drilled the next hole one inch above or below the first, or was the cable running horizontally?

 

[FatAlan]

I wasn't taking the proverbial when I first mentioned ferrets. I know they have been and possibly still are used.

Ok, so who’s going to send their apprentice to the wholesaler for a ferret harness?

 

[Wilko]

Ok, so who’s going to send their apprentice to the wholesaler for a ferret harness?

No worries, eBay sells everything we need ...

 

[FatAlan]

No worries, eBay sells everything we need ...

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Who is going to notify Screwfix so that they can add them to their stock? Suppose they’d have to add actual ferrets

 

[Deleted account]

How on earth did the subject get onto ferrets ?

 

[Spoon]

How on earth did the subject get onto ferrets ?

How else do you route cables....