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by MrBeee
Sun May 01, 2016 1:00 am
Forum: Electrics Forum
Topic: Broken Ringmain Fixing Query After Drilling Through Wire
Replies: 4
Views: 5179

Re: Broken Ringmain Fixing Query After Drilling Through Wire

That's fab info, thank you, it's much appreciated :)
by MrBeee
Sat Apr 30, 2016 12:30 am
Forum: Electrics Forum
Topic: Broken Ringmain Fixing Query After Drilling Through Wire
Replies: 4
Views: 5179

Re: Broken Ringmain Fixing Query After Drilling Through Wire

The metal isn't wrapped around, its a metal shield that fits over the top (like a cover) - its slid under the existing shielding that was there (that I had to cut a hole in to get to the wires) with all sharp edges removed - so I believe that's ok and there's a huge amount of old to new shielding co...
by MrBeee
Fri Apr 29, 2016 10:55 am
Forum: Electrics Forum
Topic: Broken Ringmain Fixing Query After Drilling Through Wire
Replies: 4
Views: 5179

Broken Ringmain Fixing Query After Drilling Through Wire

Hi all Had a failure of my live wire detector which resulted in a drill bit through my 32A ringmain cable in a wall which feeds sockets. DOH. Now in an ideal world I would just stick a junction box at the problem point and fix it, but there's 1.5cm of depth to fix this (cable is under plaster on a b...
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