English Electricians France

17/04/2026

To follow on from our last post where old meets not so old, found this old to new joint yesterday, absolutely shocking and dangerous, bit of detective work puts this at after 2016, so at that point the old wires were almost 100 years old

Hopefully this picture will help you identify possible issues in your house or one you are looking to buy

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11/04/2026

Where very old meets not as old! The fabric covered wires probably date from between 1930 and 1946, the pvc from maybe 1970, the old fabric covered wires are extremely dangerous and a fire risk given they were routed inside wood it gets more dangerous, if you see any of this wooden trunking in your house or a possible house purchase, get a qualified and insured electrician to test if it is still in use

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10/04/2026

William found this newspaper from 1970 today, the last electrician used it to fill a hole, it’s complaining the fuel companies couldn’t make a profit .………..

25/03/2026

1940’s replaced with nf15-100 compliant secondary fusebox for part of property

24/03/2026

Please be aware, a modern linky meter doesn’t mean all is good with your electrical installation, the fuse board outlined in red dates form the late 1940’s and was still in use till today

15/03/2026

14/03/2026

End of 2024 myself and william started another rewire, we always route new wires as discretely as possible, we are not fans of plastic trunking. so after removing some floorboards we spotted an off cut of the floorboards with writing on it, message appeared to be from a German soldier working on this townhouse in Javron in 1947, some googling later we discovered this was a thing! The Germans after surrender were put to work.

Anyway we did post this at the time, but now the owners of the house have dug further and got the soldiers history from the German goverment !

message received from customer :

Steve, got some info on our German prisoner of war. I contacted the Bundes Archives in Germany in Dec, sent then a photo of the floorboard, filled in a form explaining why I wanted the info and they sent me all his records yesterday🤗
Anton Georg Sand born 24th August 1907
Place: Wolframs, Eschenbach
Parents: Franz Sand & Maria Arnold
Married: 17th July 1934, no children
Profession: butcher & farmer
Last residence Germany: Stuttgart
Rank: senior corporal
Unit: Colonial construction engineer battalion 59
War injuries: shrapnel to leg 11th June 1944
Captured: 27th April 1945 Furstenberg, Germany by US troops.
Interned: 7th May 1945 camp in Evron - 36 mins south of Javron. He was working in our house in June 47.
Assigned to camp Depot 31 in Damigny, 37 mins towards Alencon from Javron, 1st Sept 1947.
Transferred to Depot 1102 Rennes 1st Jan 1948.
Sent home to Tubingen (Stuttgart) 12th June 1948.
He spent 3 years in Normandy as a prisoner of war.
Medical report 8th March 1946:
Vit E deficiency
Hyperthyroidism
Tachycardia
Burns
Signed off work duties.
Salary: from May 1945, salary of 15 francs a month. He spent 9 francs a month on to***co.
Isn't German efficiency amazing!!!!

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31/08/2025

Not only was the back box the wrong type, the gaffa taped wires hidden behind wall were a fire waiting to happen, correct masonary boxes installed new wires in correct conduit and a bit of tiling later and all tested

31/08/2025

A job from a while back, certainly saves on loads of extension cables for media corner or office space, Legrand celien modular system with usb rj45 and f connectors for satellite tv