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[Darkwood]

Right ... Just been nudged to set this up by Paul.M and sounds a good idea following recent threads I've done in the Arms..

Rules....No Offensive material... edit if required before posting as this is the public arena.
Anything to do with the trade or in and around it ...H&S pic's welcome.



I've posted this a few times and this is at a mates house following a kitchen refirb several yrs ago. mg_smile:

 

[pc1966]

Not really. It’s underneath a wall cabinet in the kitchen.

But I’ll suggest it to them as an option that will be cheaper than damaging the floor upstairs.

You might want to check if they have spare tiles, etc, as then it could be repaired quite well after any extension of the cables has been done.

You might also move that box down a half-height and the new one up half-height, etc, if that would allow another set of sockets be fitted and a few cm of cable for a proper joint.

 

[Mike Johnson]

Looks like the cable drops down behind the cabinet, may be able to access it from the space behind and do a decent repair.

 

[DPG]

Ideal inline splice maybe?

 

[timhoward]

This morning’s find when installing a machine from existing board.
took me a moment to process why my eyes were arguing with my brain!

edit.
the blue is actually a N so I presume the same person has connected both ends.

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I had one like this a long time ago, not long into new colours, and it took me a minute or two to twig. Like you, I had an instant sense something wasn't quite right.
Mine was finishing off an initial verification after the original sparks fell ill, and it was an unforgettable lesson to not only check the 2 pole lights up like a Christmas tree at the right times but to check which lights are on when!

 

[timhoward]

Not really. It’s underneath a wall cabinet in the kitchen.

But I’ll suggest it to them as an option that will be cheaper than damaging the floor upstairs.

A neat multi-tool access square in the back of the cabinet, and change where they keep the cereal?!
Worth checking if cabinet will unhook easily too.

 

[Mike Johnson]

Take the cabinet off the wall and make a hole as big as you like in the wall to find the cable, but do take your one coat with you.

 

[pc1966]

Looks like the cable drops down behind the cabinet, may be able to access it from the space behind and do a decent repair.

I was wondering if the cabinet could come off, a joint in wall behind it (where damaged tiles not seen), and somehow bore up/down to get new cables in while avoiding trashing the tiles shown in the photo?

 

[timhoward]

A neat multi-tool access square in the back of the cabinet, and change where they keep the cereal?!
Worth checking if cabinet will unhook easily too.

I wonder if anyone's ever used an Armeg board hole cutter in the back of a cabinet....!

 

[Raptor0014]

Ideal inline splice maybe?

I tried to get one of those on. Hoping I could push it up enough to get a decent grip. But the broken bit is too short.

 

[Raptor0014]

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Nice professionally made off downlight joint. Couldn't even be bothered to wrap the insulation tape the whole way, and the state of that neutral flex termination.

I had a similar one for a pendant. Just shoved into the ceiling like that.

 

[Mike Johnson]

What else are choc blocks for.

 

[marconi]

What should have been a simple job is going to be a lot more involved.

Tiled walls and the CPC of one leg of the ring is broken in the kitchen in such a way that it can’t be fixed easily. Oh and the whole house is on one ring.

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Could you make a connection like this using some stranded flexible wire, protect the live conductors while you solder with a powerful iron. Obviously you would use insulated green yellow 1.5mm2 cpc from a flex cable but I could only find brown. I find I can form the wrap on a test piece of 1.5mm2 and then slide off and on to conductor to be extended.

 

[nicebutdim]

I tried to get one of those on. Hoping I could push it up enough to get a decent grip. But the broken bit is too short.

Where do you find all these jobs? At this rate, you're going to need a thread of your own.

 

[timhoward]

You’d assume (or I did anyway) the singles were the ring and the other crazy things are later additions.
It turns out the 3core 1mm is the outgoing ring and runs half the length of the building!
Also the cut T+E was run in parallel to the next socket and the other end end was still connected.
It seems someone then started a rewire and gave up, the blue coiled single is a draw wire.
I’ve given up trying to work out what dark series of events led to this spaghetti.

Everything out then!

 

[Raptor0014]

Where do you find all these jobs? At this rate, you're going to need a thread of your own.

I’m in Shropshire.

I don’t post half the stuff I find. There is quite a bit of bodged jobs out there.