[Wolves] re: My day's adventure...

[Kevanf1]

On 07/10/05, Kelly, Martin <Martinkelly at wlv.ac.uk> wrote:
> I did something similar....
> I was in the proccess of putting up a kitchen cupboard above a socket, at me mum's house. experience told me to avoid the vertical and horizontal lines from the socket, as traditionally electricians and builders put the channelling or conduit in straight lines. I started to drill, flash bang wollop, and me mums tv and side lamps went off.
> You know what it was, don't yer,
> They'd only run the channelling diagonally!!!
> Mum's hair would've turned grey, if it hadn't been for all the nicotine.
> Which goes to show, you can't be too careful, I wasn't.
> Mart.
>

It's generally industry practice to run all power cables downwards
unless it is impossible to do so.  Diagonal runs are very odd.  It
sound to me like the electrician only had a short length of cable and
had to make do.  Or, it was more likely done by an amateur.

Just shows how easy it is to make a silly mistake though and place
yourself in real life threatening danger.

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