What is this electrical (?) conduit?

[ImNotAPro]

Hi All,

I think this is old electrical wiring, can anyone confirm? Found behind a wall & floor while redoing an upstairs shower room. It seems to go up the wall to almost the roof line then through the brick work to outside then stops. The other end goes down and through a few joists by way of a 2x2 that's attached on top of the actual joists. It heads off towards the other end of the house, not entirely certain where as its obstructed. I'd like to get rid of it ideally, but not sure exactly what it is or if still in use??

Cheers

 

[JohnW2]

Hi All,

I think this is old electrical wiring, can anyone confirm?

It is.

It's very probably been out of service for a very long time, but before you can safely remove it you really need to ascertain where both ends of the wiring actually go. It's very likely that they are no longer connected to anything.

Kind Regards, John

 

[SUNRAY]

Well I'd like to think its redundant and disconnected due to it being rubber and 60 years old.
Sadly you will have to identify it and verify it's staus before removal.

EDIT; beaten again

 

[SUNRAY]

Hi All,
It seems to go up the wall to almost the roof line then through the brick work to outside then stops.

How do you mean

through the brick work to outside then stops.

?

 

[ImNotAPro]

Thanks for the quick reply folks, good news I think! I should be able to get to the top of it via the roof space for a closer look. I daren't go near it once I realise there was wiring inside, but hopefully long dead as you say. The other end I can possibly track through the house but not 100% sure, will have to see.

Cheers

 

[ImNotAPro]

How do you mean

?

Will try to get some more pics

 

[ImNotAPro]

So this is where it exists through the brick in the loft space and then where it looks to come out externally. Seems awful high up to have been a outside light etc??

Cheers

 

[plugwash]

So this is where it exists through the brick in the loft space and then where it looks to come out externally. Seems awful high up to have been a outside light etc??

Cheers

Those round things look like fittings for bare overhead wires.

It's possible that many many years ago this was the main supply to the house, but replaced long ago with something beefier.

 

[bernardgreen]

That is the now redundant mains power over head supply to the house. The overhead wires would have been strung to the pair of insulators on the outside wall.

 

[ImNotAPro]

OK I see, makes a bit of sense even to me now It must be dead on the inside then I assume, safe to chop out? The main fuse box for the house is downstairs by the front door and the supply cable for it comes out of the floor.

 

[mikeyd]

If the conduit goes outside to this

then it looks to me like an old outside light.
Please don't assume the cables in the conduit are dead. Most likely they are but just because they emerge beside old redundant overhead incoming supply is no reason to assume anything.

 

[ericmark]

I love my meter

Seen here testing if power to an extension, the non contact voltage is not fool proof, but it gives one a good idea if live before you test using the leads, mine shows one to four bars, flashes a light and beeps at varying rate, cheaper versions light a small lamp, but at £25 for cheap version and £35 for mine, I can't really see point in the cheap version, as once tested with non contact then one confirms using contacts and mine will do both.

 

[ImNotAPro]

So I managed to trace the conduit back towards the middle of the house, it then dives down through the floor just about right above where the current fuse box sits downstairs. Would it even be possible to have it connected to the current box? This box was installed only a few years ago when the kitchen was redone.

Cheers

 

[oldbutnotdead]

99.99% says they've been disconnected but you do need to test to be 100% certain.

 

[conny]

You need to look in the surrounding area of the electrics to see if you can spot the end of the conduit. If necessary, you may need to lift a floorboard above next to where it disappears into the floor. Stake my pension on it that it is not connected to that consumer unit, but you do need to be 100% certain, before chopping into them.