Insulation tape on connector blocks

[Jako13!]

Is it necessary to cover the connector block in insulation tape when live connections have been made into a connector block?

 

[Pete999]

Is it necessary to cover the connector block in insulation tape when live connections have been made into a connector block?

Buffalo Bill job imo

 

[Dustydazzler]

Absolutely love a taped joint connector block

 

[telectrix]

nope. block should be enclosed in a suitable enclosure such as a wagobox, with the outer sheath inside said enclosure. i.e.no basic insulation outside.

 

[Dan]

Testing

 

[telectrix]

dan has morphed into a buzz clone

 

[JBW175]

nope. block should be enclosed in a suitable enclosure such as a wagobox, with the outer sheath inside said enclosure. i.e.no basic insulation outside.

Is it ok though as long as they’re stuffed inside a disused knockout box and tiled over? Found on a recent kitchen rewrire. ??

 

[telectrix]

Is it ok though as long as they’re stuffed inside a disused knockout box and tiled over? Found on a recent kitchen rewrire. ??

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definitely not OK. how could anyone know there was a cable vertical from that box, once it had bee tiled over.

 

[JBW175]

definitely not OK. how could anyone know there was a cable vertical from that box, once it had bee tiled over.

I know mate, and that wasn’t the worst of what I found. There was all sorts going on.

 

[Baddegg]

Is it ok though as long as they’re stuffed inside a disused knockout box and tiled over? Found on a recent kitchen rewrire. ??

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I had that a couple of years back, except they’d skimmed over it and left the live touching the back box so every time the poor woman washed the walls she got a belt...

 

[JBW175]

I had that a couple of years back, except they’d skimmed over it and left the live touching the back box so every time the poor woman washed the walls she got a belt...

Bloody Hell, that can’t have been pleasant for her, it’s madness what some people do.

 

[Dustydazzler]

definitely not OK. how could anyone know there was a cable vertical from that box, once it had bee tiled over.

I would also question their logic of tiling over it in the first place ...

Could have just stuck a double socket on it and had an extra power point

 

[JBW175]

I would also question their logic of tiling over it in the first place ...

Could have just stuck a double socket on it and had an extra power point

It was probably the same logic they used when they decided to run sockets off a 5amp lighting circuit.

That flex attached to the T&E in the picture (did) eventually end up at an outside socket. No RCD protection, old wooden framed rewireable wylex board too.

 

[ipf]

A Picasso....

 

[Baddegg]

A Picasso....

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That takes a special degree of ineptitude ?