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]

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

he was probably worried danny incase it was power cable that may have been on his bill. would not have been the first time a neighbour has tapped off the next door.

 

[Phil]

dunc beat me to it also has the potential for 400v if its was a power cable on a different phase

 

[ramrod123]

put a clip on ammeter on it see if its drawing any current, "why do you care" was a question not a critisism, i dint realise this was a deadly serious forum!

 

[Dunc]

put a clip on ammeter on it see if its drawing any current, "why do you care" was a question not a critisism, i dint realise this was a deadly serious forum!

If the cable is a power cable and the load in the live and neutral is balanced then a clip on ammeter will tell you nothing unfortunately. Plus if it's a pyro even a volt stick wouldn't show a thing as the copper outer acts as a pretty good screen against magnetic effects which the volt stick relies on to operate.

 

[millwall ken]

put a clip on ammeter on it see if its drawing any current, "why do you care" was a question not a critisism, i dint realise this was a deadly serious forum!

Works work mate, but play IS play. Chill fella, no one's getting on your case. A few more posts off of you, and you're realize that there are some very strange members on this forum. Keep 'em coming mate, we don't mean to bite.

 

[Deleted member 26818]

put a clip on ammeter on it see if its drawing any current, "why do you care" was a question not a critisism, i dint realise this was a deadly serious forum!

Of course we're deadly serious.
Electricity is no laughing matter.

 

[Sickmick]

Anyone remember the episode of bottom where they stole next doors gas through a hose pipe?

 

[Spudnik]

Welcome to the forum..


My recommendation would be to contact a local registered electrician who can investigate properly.

Its is not very easy trying to identify something like this, without seeing it first hand.

 

[cbd]

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.

That took me a while to get me head round haha

 

[cbd]

Thanks for your replies.

Yeah its a redish brown colour close braid like a quality garden hose is the best way i can explain it. One/ One quarter inch thick and the clamps are hammer in and look cast one piece bar the nails


Its got me thinking because the old lady that lived in this place before was cared for by the couple next door before she got shiped off to a care home and the son of next door is a sparky and they used to use her water from the shed tap as they have a water meter and here we dont. She was not compus mentus and i would not put it past them to swindle her as many times the husband had talked of awaiting some money when she died and sure enough they got the lot when she did.

I am one half of a two joined bungalows that are 50s built

Tomorrow i am going to pull up the itchy stuff and search for a better look as its bugging me and will till its solved.

Once again thanks every one for your replys they have given me some usefull insight and questions to answer pending further inspection

 

[SoulTy1066]

If and when you get a sparky in to check it please take a photo of the consumer unit and post on here as we'd all like to see.

 

[Knobhead]

Novel, nicking water!
But I do know of a water board engineer that had two supplies to his house one metered the other not.

Do let us know the outcome.

 

[monkeyhanger]

If the meter box is outside, it's probably a disused mains that will have belonged to the electric board. I've recently worked in some rural terraced houses where that cable had been ran through the lofts of each property as opposed to being fixed to the wall outside (and occasionally you can see it pass overhead between buildings but disappearing into the lofts at both sides).

 

[Des 56]

If the meter box is outside, it's probably a disused mains that will have belonged to the electric board. I've recently worked in some rural terraced houses where that cable had been ran through the lofts of each property as opposed to being fixed to the wall outside (and occasionally you can see it pass overhead between buildings but disappearing into the lofts at both sides).

Prefabs,if anyone still remember them,routinely had a set of supply tails running through the attic space (If you can call it an attic,that is)

They were dis used and generally left in situ
The price of copper today,ripping them out and taking to the scrappy would probably pay more than the rewiring

 

[electromonkey]

If the meter box is outside, it's probably a disused mains that will have belonged to the electric board. I've recently worked in some rural terraced houses where that cable had been ran through the lofts of each property as opposed to being fixed to the wall outside (and occasionally you can see it pass overhead between buildings but disappearing into the lofts at both sides).

I can't say that I approve of your forum name!!!