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Oh dear, I don't envy you telling the owner he needs a rewire.
NICE !!!!Got a call from an old friend saying "we had some pest control guys round yesterday, and now the bedroom light wont turn off"...
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Or needed one about 30 years ago ideally! No CPCs, and no RCD, so it's something of a can of worms.
As a short term fix, I've disconnected the offending switch drop cable completely, replaced the 2 rubber outgoing cables to the roses, and fitted a ceiling pull cord switch.
And now it's working it'll be there another 30 years...
Those cables appear to have solid conductors. If that's not an optical illusion, isn't that rather surprising?
Kind Regards, John
Most rubber twin lighting cable had solid, tinned conductors.
Only the 1/0.044" (0.98mm²) or rarely the 1/0.036". Otherwise it's 3/0.029" (1.28mm²).
the earlier installations tended to be solid, the later tended to be stranded as the lighting loads increased but there was no hard and fast rule.
You make a valid point but I suspect that this property won't be occupied by its current owners for that length of time. Any new owner will have to gut the place without a doubt.
The trouble is I've known far too many with a serious problem that beg for something to get them through an event of some description such as Christmas or the cats birthday etc then come up with all sorts of reasons why 'now is not the right time' to do the proper repair.
Bottom right isn’t vIR though.
could be other bad stuff in the house though
could be other bad stuff in the house though
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