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When I pulled up the carpet in the master bedroom of the house we recently bought I found a live mains line extension connected with insulation tape. They'd wanted to move the socket so just taped some extra length, run it under the carpet and screwed the new socket to the skirting board. Live bare wire a few millimetres under your feet!!
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So we've had a plumber in to remove our leaky disaster of a shower, and hidden by the tray he's found... a live, broken plug socket. I emphasise leaky again: the reason we're redoing it is that water leaks down the side of the tray. Thank fuck noone died of electrocution.
The negligence of the previous owners has rendered us speechless, as has the fact that they received a letter of comfort from Glasgow City Council which said that they knew the work wasn't up to spec but they weren't going to insist on improvements.