Pls help identifying T&E cable size.

Is 1991 also the year the house was built?

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ARW
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"ARW" wrote in news:mmc4ub$2in$ snipped-for-privacy@dont-email.me:

A large extension was built onto the older part of the building, and the extension, which contains the CU was wired at that time. The older, original part of the house was probably rewired at the same time, because all the wiring throughout is white-covered T&E with red and black inners.

Al

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AL_n

"AL_n" wrote in news:XnsA4C2C34FB6233zzzzzz@130.133.4.11:

What he said..

Jim

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Jim x321x

Yes, you're right. I dug out an old copy of BS 2004:1961, amended 1963 & '65, price 10/- ! In the introductory notes it's clear that from 1955 tinning was the preferred standard, with plain copper permissible if specified by the purchaser. By the 60s that was the other was round - plain annealed copper as the default, with options for (i) aluminium (sizes 7/.064 [*] and smaller not acceptable for installations subject to the IEE regs) and (ii) plain or tinned hard-drawn copper.

Those variations are all permitted in BS 6004, so are not non-standard, just less common :~). Stranded 2.5 singles are quite common - much easier to pull-in thro' twisty or crowded conduit runs.

Where "enough" is an MOQ of th order of 5 or 10 km, IME. That's a lot of DIY wiring...

[*] 7/.064 was the standard size for domestic meter tails in those days.
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Andy Wade

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