drilled through cable

[winston]

Hi, while drilling a hole in preparation to hang a picture i drilled through an electrical cable from a socket, it tripped out the circuit breaker, i tripped in the circuit breaker and power was restored. What i'm wondering is will i have to chase the wall out and relace the cable ?. i don't actually use the socket in question, but i'd like to know what the best thing to do would be ? ....in an ideal world i'd rather not have to chase the wall out.

Thanks
winston

[jdring]

'...you don't use the actual socket...'

But what about the next person. Does the socket still work... if not then you definitely broke the whole cable and probably are leaving a live wire for someone when they tap in a nail somewhere else.

My ****en run is - 'you break it you fix it'. If this is a spur, then isolate it at the ring connection point and dont leave the wire hot. Worst case - could arc and spark and set light to your wall??

my 2 cents. where is everybody else.
-jd