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Andrew Gabriel wrote:

6. building regulations which hinder people modernising their wiring,
so extremely old wiring still in use is very much more common.
Oh hang on, scratch that one, we just introduced the same regulations
here.

Even with Prat P we dont rent out apartments and blocks all wired a la
1930s in 2005... its either legal over there or not enforced. I suspect
legal,

No it is not legal. On a large Middle East US site I was at, it was all
conduit and 1930s electrics. In plants rooms not a bit of mineral insulated
cable to be seen (the norm in Europe). I asked why mineral insulated cable
had not been used, and none of them had heard of it. One knowledgeable man
said mineral insulated is used in the US, but infrequently because of cost.
This I found strange as installing metal conduit is not cheap. The merits
of conduit were given to me and how cheap is just to pull though extra wires
or to replace. I asked them how often do you replace wires? Slapping pyro
around the walls is not that expensive in comparison. The US appears
habitual in many aspects, although they did abandon fuses to a large extent.

given the litigius society and wide spread of 30s electrics,
waaaaaaaay past their scrap by date. What people often dont stop to
think is that a typical 1930s install today would even fail a /1930s/
safety inspection, due to deterioration and additions leading to
overloading.


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