Screw through electric cable under floorboards

pupmaster

I'd go with diable

woodgie

Hi there

I moved into a new build property a year ago and was using a hell of a lot electricity in my 2 bed flat a month up until around a month ago when I switched on my bathroom light and it went bang- I called out an electrician to find out I had a screw through a live cable, Can this use more electricity with a screw through a cable?

DVardysShadow

woodgie wrote: »

Hi there

I moved into a new build property a year ago and was using a hell of a lot electricity in my 2 bed flat a month up until around a month ago when I switched on my bathroom light and it went bang- I called out an electrician to find out I had a screw through a live cable, Can this use more electricity with a screw through a cable?

If it did use more electricity, then it would all be given out as heat. And for the amount of electricity you are thinking about, you would by now have had a fire.

ormus

it cannot use more lecky or heat up as its only contacted one wire. you need to complete the circuit to use lecky and generate any heat.
then it would blow the fuse or trip the RCD.