Chinese Homebuyers Shocked to Find Electrical Cables Running Through Their New Homes

Imagine opening the door to your brand new home only to discover it’s uninhabitable and a health hazard. Well that’s exactly what happened to a group of new homeowners from Xindeng town in Hangzhou, east China’s Zhejiang Province. Their newly-built villas have wires and cables running straight through the middle of them after village committee and utility companies had failed to coordinate their activities.

The electricity cables were built before the houses but after the plot was approved for residential development by a local committee. Sadly the homeowners, most of whom spent their life savings on the villas, only realised the existence of the cables after the land was allocated to them. They were left with no choice but to build the properties to fit with the cables, hoping the utility companies would remove the wires before the building works completed.

When the group of villagers moved into their new houses in July, they were surprised to see the cables were still existing and they run through the terraced row. The metal cables run straight through the kitchens, corridors, staircases, the living room and the master bedrooms. The wires are so thick – some with a diameter of six inches.

Read more at: DailyMail