isolation of live cable...

[danny7299]

Have you even Started looking? Find out what mcb it's on , then start logically start working your way throught that circuit , it's has to come from somewhere

You could also short out the cable and start belling it out , and disconnecting things untill you find it, if you leave it , it will come back to haunt you!

 

[matt.leung]

i will find the start of this cable when i change the CU and start all of the dead testing..

 

[sellers]

If its in a safe zone then I would extend it into the cooker back box and put it in a connector block. If you leave it assuming it is in a safe zone then in a few years time someone removes or moves the cooker switch, your cable will not then be in a safe zone.

Either remove it to above or below the ceiling, or get it into an accessory box with a connector block as long as its in a safe zone.

 

[the doctor]

the thing is that we can not find the other end of the cable... at first we though that it came from the lighting circuit mainly the switch but no luck, and for sure it is not coming off the kitchen ring... at the mo it is terminated in connector block...

How about cuttting a small hole in the ceiling above, find the offending circuit. Next chop it, pop a jb on it, push it up into hole and make good the hole:coat

best wishes

Alan

 

[Riggy]

"interesting" tone to some of those posts people!

On the basis that you can't find the cable above the ceiling I'd go for Sellers' solution, extend the cable into an existing accessory box terminate and label. I'd at least identify which fuse/mcb it's fed from.

 

[SPECIAL LOCATION]

trace it, get a fuse finder or something similar. I wouldn't be happy walking from a job terminating a cable in a wall safe zone or not.

Agreed!

what size cable is it?

?:| :|

just because you can see one end vertically above the cooker point...

How do you know it does not go diagonal?

follow it along the wall with a bleepy cable tracer thingy!

:|

 

[SPECIAL LOCATION]

How about cuttting a small hole in the ceiling above, find the offending circuit. Next chop it, pop a jb on it, push it up into hole and make good the hole:coatbest wishes

Alan

Also agreed!Applaud Smiley

 

[SPECIAL LOCATION]

the cable dissappears behind the door frame period.....

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so it is not running vertical .

I would consider anything that close to a door frame to be unsafe...

e.g. customer calls in chippy to stick some new architrave around the door...

wider stuff.. nail through cable!!!! :|

 

[Blue Fox]

If you find out what circuit it is on then only leave that circuit powered up to eliminate interference and use a voltage detector you should be able to trace where it goes most stud detectors have a voltage detector on them then once you know where it goes find it above the ceilin and cut it I've had to trace cables round walls before like this that had been run in an interesting route