Professional Property Maintenance

Hidden Junction Box A Crock

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Cowboy Electrician

The first picture (it’s a bit grainy) is of a switched spur on the wall and underneath that is a double socket. We were on site to modify the electrics for a kitchen refurb and when we opened the existing electrics we knew something was wrong as we couldn’t locate the ring main. As we started removing plaster to trace the wire back we found the hidden junction box shown in the second photo. The junction box was spliced into the actual ring main from where the spur and double socket were run.

We sorted the out the old circuit and ran a new ring for the kitchen which alleviated the original issues.