Electric cable history

Scott · 2022-07-01T13:02:15+00:00

I saw former neighbours, who have moved house (address not stated forlegal reasons).She told me a full rewire is needed. According to the electrician,the cable is older than rubber cable [VIR, I assume]. My formerneighbour describes it as cloth covered. I have asked for a sample tosee what it is.Personally speaking, at this point I would have pulled the main fuse. Despite some Google searching, I cannot find details of the cable usedbefore VIR (Vulcanised India Rubber). I seem to remember that papermay have been used. Could someone clarify? .

Jul 01, 2022 Last reply: 4 years ago 42 Replies

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Vir Campestris 4 years ago

Err... what... did I miss something?

He was a nice guy last time I swapped messages with him. Which could have been about the rubber wiring that was in our thatch when we moved in...

Andy

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Robin 4 years ago

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Vir Campestris 4 years ago

Thank you.

My memory is obviously worse than I thought as I commented at the time :(

Andy

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