Electrical Cables on hot plumbing pipes

[john coleman]

Recently had an extension done. Noticed electrician had run mains electrical cables right on to the hot feed from the boiler which gets very hot. Is this a safety issue? Can the insulation stand the heat for hours on end?..

 

[telectrix]

In a new build extension, there's no excuse for it.

and in response to Pirate, I'm sure a man of your calibre can make safe, cut the cable, unwind from the pipe and reconnect in a suitably placed MF jointbox.

ensuring safe isolation of the electricity in the cable and empty the pipes water out. drowning can kill.

 

[pirate]

Yes littlespark, I can do that fix...if I remove the flooring under the staircase, the carpet and underfelt and the ply over the original floorboards!
Basically, I was making good the loose floorboard when I saw the problem, but the wound-round cable was 6 feet away under a new staircase, it was 11pm and the carpetfitters were due at 8am the following morning, so Mrs Pirate vetoed the disruption, so I slid lengths of pipe insulation along the affected pipe with a stick...luckily there was just enough slack in the cable for the insulation to slide under it.
Not too pleased with the wetpants either as that pipe should have been insulated anyway.
and that's why I do DIY

 

[Midwest]

If it was a rewire could of been the plumber shoving his pipes under the floor where un clipped cables had been fished across. Experienced that before.

 

[Rpa07]

The outer mechanical insulation is melted through but I do doubt that it would have gone through the conductor insulation - the rat died of boredom waiting!