Burying a live wire

[Carlnorwich]

I have recently had a new boiler fitted and the water storage tank removed from a cupboard upstairs. Where the tank has been removed there remains an electrical timer fixed to the wall (which was connected to the water tank). Can I remove the timer, and then bury the extg cable in the wall and plaster over it? I assume there's some sort of safe termination gadget I connect the wires to before I bury it? Of course I will cut the power supply before I do any of this.

Thank you in advance.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

You need to remove the circuit cable entirely, or at the very least disconnect it from the CU and bring that end of it outside the CU (at which point you can do anything you like to tidy up the loose end).

What you absolutely must not do is to leave a live cable buried in the walls with what it used to serve removed thus leaving nothing to alert people to the presence of the buried cable.

 

[Carlnorwich]

Thanks for the information-you may have saved someones life.

 

[Chivers7]

Carl why not replace it with a socket.

It's in a cupboard and might be useful for charging a torch or screwdriver etc.

 

[Carlnorwich]

Carl why not replace it with a socket.

It's in a cupboard and might be useful for charging a torch or screwdriver etc.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Umm....

Carl why not replace it with a socket.

It's in a cupboard and might be useful for charging a torch or screwdriver etc.

Absolutely nothing....