Bloody Wood Butchers.

[telectrix]

as above. fitted a wall cabinet. drilled , plugged and screwed directly above mid point od a double socket. what a muppet. esp. as the cabinet brackets could easily be moved a couple of inches.

 

[buzzlightyear]

nice.

 

[Spoon]

That is precision drilling... Bang in the middle of the cable.

 

[Pete E]

Don't complain...it keeps you in beer tokens!

On the landing of our house, the previous people stuck a nail about 12" directly above a light switch..Luckily it is patrician wall and the T&E wasn't hanging dead vertical otherwise they would have nailed it!

 

[Pete999]

Don't complain...it keeps you in beer tokens!

On the landing of our house, the previous people stuck a nail about 12" directly above a light switch..Luckily it is patrician wall and the T&E wasn't hanging dead vertical otherwise they would have nailed it!

Crikey Pete I thought you were on about my Wife, her name is Patricia.

 

[Pete E]

LOL, never culd spell!

 

[Squid]

Shocking......

 

[pirate]

Crikey...bullseye!

 

[telectrix]

prepped ready to crimp and heat shrink:

managed to pull a couple of inches slack from above.

 

[Taylortwocities]

There's a lot of it about

 

[NDG Elecs]

That wouldn't have happened if the cables were bodged in diagonally. It is me, or is it only sparks that seem to be aware of cable routes....tho in this case your socket was directly below and bloody obvious!

 

[telectrix]

it would seem that logics dictate cables go straight up/down/left/right. we all know that. trouble is that some other trades can't see anything beyond their own incompetence. ( and that excludes the other trades that have a brain, some are good, some bad, some indifferent, and some should have been smothered at birth).

 

[Eliza Bennett]

Nice. Its good luck if no accident happened there.

 

[GB.Kayak]

Try this one on for size ...

... screw in 'free' space, not fixing anything, ~ 15 - 20 mm from the edge of the edge of the back box hole and roughly vertically in line with where the cable sheath and conductor insulation has been breached! Lath and screw 'plastered' over with 'new' white plaster ... certainly not the original lime plaster!

... and then there is the 'stripping' damage to the insulation on the other side of the Line conductor! If I remember correctly that was the 'load' cable. It was not connected to anything ... but the 'supply' cable was connected to a MCB @ the Distribution Board.

 

[Pete999]

Try this one on for size ... View attachment 40551 ... screw in 'free' space, not fixing anything, ~ 15 - 20 mm from the edge of the edge of the back box hole and roughly vertically in line with where the cable sheath and conductor insulation has been breached! Lath and screw 'plastered' over with 'new' white plaster ... certainly not the original lime plaster!View attachment 40552
... and then there is the 'stripping' damage to the insulation on the other side of the Line conductor! If I remember correctly that was the 'load' cable. It was not connected to anything ... but the 'supply' cable was connected to a MCB @ the Distribution Board.

Looks like the electrician stripping those cables had a bit of a mishap with the red conductor, more than likely he was using a Stanley type knife.