Zebra
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Your guy's doing the wrong test. You need to have it checked out for continuity of conductors, insulation resistance and the presence of an earth before potentially reconnecting a fault to the circuit. The fact that it's got a voltage doesn't mean much, as MdB's experiment shows, a voltage can be induced on a healthy piece of cable. It may well be that it was disconnected because there was something wrong with it, and the previous occupants didn't want to damage the ceilings either.