Rodents chewed neutral tail insulation

[jeffelectric]

Passed 2330 last week, thought i'd practice testing at home for 2392 next month.
Lots of evidence of mice being around ,no dead ones tho .
so i need to replace the tail. the neutral tail goes to the meter no isolator. so safe isolation would be to remove the
main fuse and carry out repair? But am i right that i should not break the seal on the cutout?

 

[mackers]

get it cut and put an henley block in and move on !

 

[mickys86]

screw an earthed tray near to tails rub cheese onto the live tail and sit back and wait for the darkwood mousetrap to work

excellent!!

 

[jeffelectric]

thanks everyone will repair the tail. good news a cat came by offered his mouse catching services for 2 tins of tuna a day .
regards

 

[alarm man]

thanks everyone will repair the tail. good news a cat came by offered his mouse catching services for 2 tins of tuna a day .
regards

give it 3 and it will replace the tail too..
:tongue3:

 

[D80]

give it 3 and it will replace the tail too..
:tongue3:

Cheaper to get a spark in, tuna is so expensive these days!

 

[D80]

Passed 2330 last week, thought i'd practice testing at home for 2392 next month. View attachment 11420
Lots of evidence of mice being around ,no dead ones tho .
so i need to replace the tail. the neutral tail goes to the meter no isolator. so safe isolation would be to remove the
main fuse and carry out repair? But am i right that i should not break the seal on the cutout?

Not sure is that is rodent damage or just a bit of a bodged install. Enough room there to poke your finger up and get to the busbar. More than enough room for a mouse to get into that CU.

 

[Engineer54]

It's most definitely TN-S!! So what makes you think it's TNC-S then??

 

[jeffelectric]

i first thought it was tn-s as there is obviously earth return on sheaf, it was the pme label on the earth that confused me.

 

[dixon9]

no you are not allowed to break the seal,
however if the seal is already broken, from before you moved in,
then just pull the fuse and change the damaged tail

I must admit, I've always been fortunate enough to find the seals already broken on every single job I've been on...

 

[Engineer54]

i first thought it was tn-s as there is obviously earth return on sheaf, it was the pme label on the earth that confused me.

Well there is certainly no sign of a neutral earth link showing on the posted photo!! Even if the photo is a little fuzzy when blown up in size!! lol!!

 

[DNS1]

Anyone got any advice on this one?

On the subject of rodent damage...

I extended a kitchen ring recently, cable was run in the cavity below the wooden floor (ground level). I crimped on a new piece of T+E and wrapped it all in self-amalgamating tape.

When I took the boards up again a few weeks later, it looked like part of the tape had been chewed, but there was no damage to the T+E at any point on it's length.

Anyone know what's happened here? Just coincidence, or do mice just like the taste of self amalgamating tape?