Here is another story of electrics left in a unsafe condition.
About 10 year ago, my son bought a bungalow fairly close by to our home address.
It had been owned by an elderly couple who had recently passed away.
The home was almost empty on leaving, except in the kitchen was a almost new electric cooker.
The seller said that it was NOT included in the sale and it would be removed after completing the sale.
A few months passed by and it came to the day when you are receiving the keys
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He was not moving in for a while, as it needed a LOT of modernising.
When checking the kitchen, the cooker had indeed been removedS agreed - Okay fine
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But on closer inspection, instead of removing the back plate from the rear of the cooker and disconnect it that way, they had turned off the main cooker feed at the isolation switch on the wall, then cut the cable, just at the point where it disappeared behind the plaster !.
You could just see the three bare conductors level with the plaster work.
Naturally you would assume that somebody had isolated the cooker feed at the C.U. ?.
Assume nothing !.
NO - The supply was still turned on at the C.U. !.
It was live right the way through, it was only isolated with the cooker switch was in the OFF position.
Somebody must have been desperate for a short length of 6.0mm T&E I guess
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I mean seriously, you can’t make up this type of stuff.