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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: dazmond on June 11, 2024, 12:26:32 pm

Title: Are these telephone wires or electricity?
Post by: dazmond on June 11, 2024, 12:26:32 pm: (http://www.cleanitup.co.uk/smf/1718104982_Screenshot_20240611_122111_Photos.jpg)(http://www.cleanitup.co.uk/smf/1718104982_Screenshot_20240611_122101_Photos.jpg)(http://www.cleanitup.co.uk/smf/1718104987_Screenshot_20240611_122048_Photos.jpg)(http://www.cleanitup.co.uk/smf/1718104987_Screenshot_20240611_122055_Photos.jpg)(http://www.cleanitup.co.uk/smf/1718104988_Screenshot_20240611_122043_Photos.jpg)

Never really took any notice before but after the window cleaner that got electrocuted recently it's got me thinking.....🤔

Clean these windows this morning and at least one of them it's impossible to clean without touching the wires with my pole....
Title: Re: Are these telephone wires or electricity?
Post by: Slacky on June 11, 2024, 12:37:24 pm: Most of them are telephone.

That thicker one in the bottom three pics looks like electric.
Title: Re: Are these telephone wires or electricity?
Post by: simon w on June 11, 2024, 12:57:19 pm: Think about the diameter of the cables Dazmond and the outer core, do you think that mains electricity could pass through these into a building? 🙂
Title: Re: Are these telephone wires or electricity?
Post by: zesty on June 11, 2024, 01:11:02 pm: If it’s leccy, there is usually a yellow warning sign on the post. The usual ‘danger electric’ sign it whatever it says.

That’s thicker wire does look a bit suspect though.
Title: Re: Are these telephone wires or electricity?
Post by: dazmond on June 11, 2024, 03:10:07 pm: Quote from: Slacky on June 11, 2024, 12:37:24 pm
Most of them are telephone.

That thicker one in the bottom three pics looks like electric.

That's what I was thinking.....its insulated though....its on a very old pub that dates back to the early 1800s(it's now a community centre)....ive done lots of drinking,womanising and drumming in local bands in this former pub back in the 90s... ;D
Title: Re: Are these telephone wires or electricity?
Post by: The Jester of Wibbly on June 11, 2024, 07:14:16 pm: I've always been led to believe if there are those metal steps on the pole it won't be electric. They can't have metal objects on the pole to attract current jumps.
Title: Re: Are these telephone wires or electricity?
Post by: Scottish Cleaning Service on June 12, 2024, 07:32:54 am: Usually get one thick black telephone cable linking all the poles. As they say, there should be warning signs if high voltage.
Title: Re: Are these telephone wires or electricity?
Post by: The Jester of Wibbly on June 20, 2024, 02:32:34 pm: I would refuse to take any of these houses on. So dangerous.

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Title: Re: Are these telephone wires or electricity?
Post by: Scottish Cleaning Service on June 20, 2024, 02:58:03 pm: Very dangerous looking and you are right, avoid at all cost.