Good Morning DW.
Bit of advice if I may?
Yesterday I had a local company in to fit my house alarm.
They decided to put the main control box right above the electric distribution board in the hall way.
Long story short, they drilled through a cable, twice Obviously a bit of a flash & bang and then no electricity.
The owner of the company came out to have a look. His solution was to knock some of the plaster away to expose the cables. He then cut the cable and stripped it back. He's rejoined the cable using one of them chock block screw terminal things and said "you won't see it when the box is on".
Can any electricians on DW tell me if this is safe?? The drilled cable looked like the smaller 1.5mm lighting circuit?
The cable that was drilled was covered by one of those conduit cover things and then plastered over.
Behind my alarm box is now a gaping hole in the plaster and an exposed chock block thing. Addmitantly, you can't see any of if because the box covers it.
If I move house and want to take the alarm with me (wireless and bloody expensive) I assume that I will need an electrician & plasterer to out it right??
Any advice would be great.
Cheers
DiGG
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Bit of advice if I may?
Yesterday I had a local company in to fit my house alarm.
They decided to put the main control box right above the electric distribution board in the hall way.
Long story short, they drilled through a cable, twice Obviously a bit of a flash & bang and then no electricity.
The owner of the company came out to have a look. His solution was to knock some of the plaster away to expose the cables. He then cut the cable and stripped it back. He's rejoined the cable using one of them chock block screw terminal things and said "you won't see it when the box is on".
Can any electricians on DW tell me if this is safe?? The drilled cable looked like the smaller 1.5mm lighting circuit?
The cable that was drilled was covered by one of those conduit cover things and then plastered over.
Behind my alarm box is now a gaping hole in the plaster and an exposed chock block thing. Addmitantly, you can't see any of if because the box covers it.
If I move house and want to take the alarm with me (wireless and bloody expensive) I assume that I will need an electrician & plasterer to out it right??
Any advice would be great.
Cheers
DiGG
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