Martin Bonner wrote:
On Dec 18, 2:38 am, John Rumm wrote:
[1] At my previous place (built 1956) I rewired the next door neighbours
property for them (other half of the semi), and that still had its
original wiring (and about 8 sockets in the whole house!). That was all
VIR, separate earth, and was wired as a radial with a 30A rewireable
fuse for protection)

Was that out of the goodness of your heart, or to prevent their
electrics burning your house down? :-)

LOL. To be fair, there was an element of relief once it was done!

The actual cable was in fact in pretty good condition given its age -
most of what I saw was still reasonably flexible and rubbery (apart from
near some of the terminations). The main problem was the general lack of
capacity, and all the extra bits that had been hacked onto it over the
years - the number of 13A flexes that had been poked into the old Mem CU
and hooked up to whichever ceramic fuse was nearest gave some cause for
concern!


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Cheers,

John.

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