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Are they still live? If they’re on their own switch, you might be able to disconnect at the switch*, and just trim them short and fill over them. Pretty common for old houses to have old fed bales still buried in the walls.
- you’ll need some method of checking if the cables are live or dead before doing anything. You don’t want to switch the power off and chop them, only to find out they’re still live when you put the power back on.
- you’ll need some method of checking if the cables are live or dead before doing anything. You don’t want to switch the power off and chop them, only to find out they’re still live when you put the power back on.
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My new house has 4 of these bunches of wires sunk in the wall, which used to be for wall mounted lamps. I don’t want to fit one. How should I correctly terminate these so I can fill and paint the holes?