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Default cables in walls - horizontal from sockets?

On Sat, 22 May 2010 11:02:21 +0100 someone who may be Andy Burns
wrote this:-

The original cooker outlet (early '70s professional install) in my house
was diagonal and without steel capping.


So?

Running unprotected cables diagonally was not frowned upon until
IIRC sometime in the 1980s.



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