Wiring Incident..

rygon

best thing to do is ask the electrician what to do seeing that he is the qualified person, rather than asking strangers on a board who range from qualified/ knowledgable to unqualified / no idea yet will all give their opinion.

Zax47 has given the best answer, but it will come down to what the electrician you have brought in feels comfortable doing (hes the one who can see the job and decide the best way of going about it)

brownbake

littlerose12345 wrote: »

Hi All,

We have recently had our house rewired and also re-plastered.

We are now fitting radiators and have accidently drilled a hole into one of the mains cables (which runs the length of the wall). Luckily the second fix isn't complete yet and so the wiring wasn't connected yet.

Just wondering if you would know what the best solution would be in terms of fixing this with minimum disruption to the plaster work?

Obviously we will be getting the electrician back (haven't spoken to him as yet) but just wondered what he would suggest?

Thanks

Not great to drill into a mains cable!! Whoever did this should probably invest in a "cable / pipe detector" - and then they wouldn't do this in the first place.

As a forensic scientist I would have thought you would have thought you would have surveryed the site. Hope you don't come and investigate if I ever get murdered!!

:T

zax47

Wow, you really read these posts carefully don't you! Mcjordi is the forensically trained scientist, not littlerose12345.