Is it possible to use electricity after flooding?

Sofia asks:
Good evening. Please help with advice. The situation is this: yesterday the neighbors from the 3rd floor flooded our apartment with boiling water (we are on the 2nd), the neighbors on the 1st floor along the riser and a couple of apartments to the side of ours (but there only a little wallpaper left).

The reason is the breakthrough of the domestic hot water hose in the kitchen. Water poured for about 1.5 hours, we entered the apartment, and there was rain from the ceiling (in the kitchen, in the corridor, in the room, right on the big bed). There is a wall in the corridor, where the front door and the staircase are all in the water, dripping from it the longest.

Our kitchen is sheathed with plastic panels (no visible underflood is visible, but under the panels, I suppose that a complete scribe), we can’t remove anything ourselves (only women in the family), plus we are waiting for an act from the Housing Office about flooding, we will call appraisers (until they are also not advisable to touch something) and file a lawsuit.

But the problem now is that we are afraid to use electricity, sockets. We did not de-energize the apartment, we simply did not turn on anything except a gas stove with electric ignition, then only everyone used the outlet in the back room. We are afraid to turn it on because of a short circuit so that then firefighters do not have to be called.

In the kitchen, even during the flood, the lamps in the chandelier themselves lit up, then went out (we did not turn on the light anywhere else for a day). Only a refrigerator works in the kitchen, other appliances are simply plugged into a power outlet, we don’t use them. They called an emergency gang, an electrician told us that he can’t do anything, turn it on and see if it’s short or not 😨 Korotanet, like, call paid electricians, let them watch, make up the paper, then go to court with it.

 

The answer to the question:
Hello! At a minimum, you should tighten your knowledge of electricity, which will be helped by various articles on our website, and, as a maximum, not to believe the electrician who came.

Judge for yourself - you have wet wires and voltage is on. But you don’t use electrical appliances because a short circuit will occur, right?

So it will happen through the water between the wires under voltage, regardless of whether something is connected or not. And you use devices or do not use, from this the situation does not become more or less dangerous.

You just have to wait until everything is dry. If possible, de-energize the apartment for this period. And not to use devices is a useless decision.

The lights came on - just because the switch box or switch was flooded.

 

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