Cables....what to do with??

[ms2004]

Hello,

We are refitting the bathroom. Last year we had central heating put it with a combi boiler so the immersion heater in the bathoom was removed. The plumbers left 2 cables, one economy7, the other, daytime electricity. When we had the kitchen installed, the electrican removed the economy7 controller for the immersion heater so the cables in the bathroom are dead. I have traced them back and they disappear somewhere down the wall cavity in the hallway which is next to the bathroom.

Whats the best way to deal with them now. I can remove them to the point which they disappear but where they go then I have no idea. They are dead and I have checked this. I would suspect they go to where the economy7 controller was. The easiest was to deal with it would be to simply cut them off but I dont want to bodge it by doing that. Whats the best way to deal with this as there is no way I can remove them altogether, they are buried within the cavities. The cavities are here are less than an inch wide as the stone walls are 3 foot thick.

Any suggestions?? Thanks.

 

[plugwash]

I would reccomend against just burying them in the wall in case the other ends accidently get recconnected later.

heres a couple of possible suggestions

1: terminate them in chock block in a backbox and put a blanking plate over the top

2: cut the ends square fit a heatshrink end cap. This will provide good insulation should the cable be reconnected by mistake and so it should be reasonable to just bury it in that state. unfortunately it seems in the kind of sizes you would wan't (you wan't the diameter unshrunk to be larger than the cable and the diameter fully shrunk to be smaller than the cable) they come by the hundred from the supplier i tend to use http://uk.farnell.com/jsp/endecaSea...heatshrink+end+caps&Nty=1&N=401&Ntk=gensearch

 

[kai]

Would strapping Live Neutral and Earth together in a connector be safer?

Future people who try to connect it up by mistake, will, or should realise they did some thing wrong , when the test results don't come out OK.
(e.g. a dead short between Line and Neutral and Earth too!).

 

[plugwash]

thats assuming they test at all. I doubt an electrician would just connect up a loose cable anyway without any idea what it did its diyers i worry about in that regard.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Then they'll find out they've done something wrong when they energise it, won't they....

 

[plugwash]

anyone got a video of someone inserting a plug in fuse or similar against a dead short i can't imagine its either pretty or safe.

 

[Adam_151]

anyone got a video of someone inserting a plug in fuse or similar against a dead short i can't imagine its either pretty or safe.

But flicking an MCB on agaisnt a short is rather inspectacular, i've done it, its just a little supprising when when it switches off again, and fuses should be inserted with the power off, and I'm sure its written on every fuse cu out there, "switch off main switch before inserting or removing fuses" or something like that