Renovating in the basement and found what I thought was a drainpipe in the floor. But it wasn't sealed at the joints and then I found a hole.

Want to remove it completely if possible, but what is it for and what's inside? Can anyone help identify it.

It's in a villa in Solna.

Close-up of a corroded pipe and debris in a basement floor, showing damaged and cracked areas, possibly mistaken for a drainage pipe.
Damaged drainage pipes and debris in a basement floor, showing exposed and corroded joints, located in a residential area in Solna.
 
Yes, it could be. The house is from '31.
But two wires and the cable is ground?
 
Electrical supply, power company's service, paper-insulated cable+earth wire+one more cable, possibly outgoing service to the next house or internal main line to an outbuilding.
 
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Just to chip it away then, got a new electrical service a year ago, and that one is probably older than the previous one too.
 
Is it a thin copper sheet wrapped around as protection?
 
Thin iron sheet
Construction ECJJ Cable
Tar-impregnated yarn, metal strips, tar paper strips, lead, oil-impregnated paper, copper conductors

The oil may contain PCB
And it can drip from the cable when leaving a cut end.
If the whole cable cannot be removed, seal the cable end with a shrink cap. But
You "strip" the cable down to the lead sheath, clean it, and then shrink on a shrink cap.

The oil can be aggressive against the adhesive in electrical tape, so taping doesn't always work in the long term.

Before cutting, check with the power grid owner that it is not theirs and that it is truly out of service.
Otherwise, you need to try to trace them and see if you find a cut end.
 
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It would be strange if a neighbor gets power through my house. They were all built 20 years later. But there was a police station and a residence in the house earlier. Maybe that's why there are two cables.

I have contacted Vattenfall to see if they want to remediate.
 
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But it was a police station and an accommodation in the house earlier.
That was more factual, it could be something tele-like?
 
Yes, I was about to say that, but the phone rebooted and deleted the message. Televerket ;) was here 5 years ago and reconnected a line. The guy who came was shocked, "What! Do you have our distribution box(?) In your villa? Why, it's our property." Apparently, 24 lines instead.
 
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Entering the house in the middle, at the same place as the old incoming electrical service.

But I don't really know, when they installed fiber they came through something that was marked on some map, a 95-pipe(+-?) That was supposed to be an old telephone pipe.
 
Hmm, I would probably check with Televerket's modern successors to ensure that it's not a phone cable that's still in use, even if analog (real) telephony is unfortunately on the decline.
 
The fiber probably doesn't go through any of the ECJJ cables, so that speaks against it. But it might be worth it.
 
As previously stated, it is an old oil cable for electricity, and one should definitely have the network owner confirm that it is dead before tampering with it.
 
Hmm former police station 24par..... Worth considering telecable since there is a visually similar telecable.
And often a ground line in copper was drawn as a lightning conductor/protection.
Check with Scanova
 
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