Could you please tell me what this cable is

[cbd]

Hi.

Could any body please tell me what this cable is in my loft.

It runs into next door and i cant for the life of me work out why it should.

We both have mains cables coming out the ground into the meter box on the front of the house.
So why would we need to be linked in any way?

From the postion where the cable enters the loft it is directly above my circuit box then runs full length on a loft on a beam through a cut out brick in the divide into there home.

Can anyone shed some light









Thanks
Dave

 

[Phil]

Hi Dave, it looks to me like coax cable, but I don`t have my gigs since I run over the dam things last friday

 

[Deleted member 26818]

Looks like un sheathed Pyro to me, although it's rather large.

 

[Sickmick]

Are you end terraced? possibly old Rediffusion cable.

 

[ramrod123]

why do you care?

 

[MarkieSparkie]

If the outer covering is brown pvc, it's likely to 75ohm TV Coax.

 

[Phil]

I don`t reckon much to the clipping and thats from a guy without glasses on

 

[cagedanimal2010]

i would say co-ax, however it does look a bit on the big side.
Danny

 

[cagedanimal2010]

why do you care?

got nothing useful to say, dont say anything.

 

[Deleted member 26818]

why do you care?

They want to know if they can connect their flat screen TV up to it, when they're not riding their motorcycle, listening to LPs or boiling their feet.

 

[Mark_Burgess]

Do you have overhead telephone cables or underground?

My mother has a very similar cable that happens to be telephone cable, about 1/2" diameter its armoured.

 

[ramrod123]

got nothing useful to say, dont say anything.

I just dont see what there is to gain from finding out, if it was in your front room on show yes but its in loft, sorry to be blunt

 

[millwall ken]

Hi Dave, it looks to me like coax cable, but I don`t have my gigs since I run over the dam things last friday

I concur - thats probably the most obvious answer.

 

[Dunc]

I just dont see what there is to gain from finding out, if it was in your front room on show yes but its in loft, sorry to be blunt

However, if it's a power cable then there are a couple of scenarios, a. the next door neighbour is getting free electricity or b. the OP is getting free electricity. Also, properties sharing any electrical connection can generate very dangerous conditions such as isolated circuits still being live etc. Believe me this type of thing does happen.

In my opinion it looks a bit like pyro based on it being too big for coax IMO. Is the cable fairly flexible or a bit more stiff like microbore pipe?

 

[cagedanimal2010]

I just dont see what there is to gain from finding out, if it was in your front room on show yes but its in loft, sorry to be blunt

this is a place to be helpful. if we all went around with the " why do you care" attitude, no one would get any help!!!