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Johnmelad502
Went to refit floorboards back at a job today after a full rewire and found this. Messy or what.
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Johnmelad502
Noooooo, just something I found afterwards. The spark must have cut this from the old wiring.
Not being a spark myself I was wondering what it was all about, it looked really dodgy to me.
That's probably part of the reason for the rewire.!!
That sort of stuff was common as a result of add-ons and wiring back in days of yore.
The earth wires outside the junction box were also a common sight.
Back in them days, too, it was permissable for junction boxes to be hidden under floors and therefore not accessible. Most houses built in 50's and 60's had a large junction box under the landing floorboards where all of the downstairs lighting connected. With another located in the loft for the upstairs lighting.
All of this not allowed in more recent versions of the regs.
The only thing wrong with what you have found is that whoever did the rewire should have removed those boxes altogether. But they aren't 'live' or part of the installation, so no worries.
That sort of stuff was common as a result of add-ons and wiring back in days of yore.
The earth wires outside the junction box were also a common sight.
Back in them days, too, it was permissable for junction boxes to be hidden under floors and therefore not accessible. Most houses built in 50's and 60's had a large junction box under the landing floorboards where all of the downstairs lighting connected. With another located in the loft for the upstairs lighting.
All of this not allowed in more recent versions of the regs.
The only thing wrong with what you have found is that whoever did the rewire should have removed those boxes altogether. But they aren't 'live' or part of the installation, so no worries.
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Paul_C
It's still perfectly acceptable to put a junction box under a floor, so long as it can be accessed reasonably easilyy by lifting a floorboard.
Most is exaggerating it a little. It was one method which was employed in some houses, but individual junction boxes for each lighting point were widespread, as was loop-in wiring.
Where is there anything in the current Regs. which prohibits a modern equivalent of those old "Octopus" junction boxes for multiple lighting controls?
You when you tick that box that talks about providing documentation
It is a grey area. The NIC has taken the stance that a carpeted room with furtiture has an unaccessable floor void.
That's how the lighting circuits in my house were wired (not any more)! Either that way or by just twisting the conductors together with those little porcelain/plastic thimbles and wrapping in PVC tape. It was a late 70's rewire.
At least whoever originally installed it was thinking of people coming after him, and didn't twist the cpcs together over the lid...
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