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In the simple industrial world I lived in a 'sheath' was a means of protection, be it a condom, armour wire or braided material (metal or fabric). Double meant "two" and insulation meant "non-conducting". So a cable with an outer sheath was a cable with some form of mechanical protection that...

Agreed, but the suggestion was an interim 'fix' until such time as he'd managed to get the relevant body to change the cable

I wonder why some go on about 13A sockets being connected to lighting circuits being "dangerous" as the lights might go out if the socket is 'mis-used'. The incoming mains probably 'goes out' with the loss of all lights, more often than inadvertant insertion of a vacuum cleaner into a lighting...

You can get 'paint-on' insulation which might be better than trying to get wraps of insulation tape round it. Something like this : https://www.amazon.co.uk/Insulating-Tape-Liquid-Electrical-118/dp/B00176FG0A/ref=sr_1_6?keywords=Liquid+Electrical+Tape&qid=1657055979&sr=8-6

Why not run a 4mm line from the CU to the socket and stop this silly bickering - or get a battery operated torch as suggested in line 1

The arch bricks and immediate surrounds have been attacked with a chipping hammer so they'll never clean up to look nice. You might be better pointing up the defective mortar to stabilise the bricks then get some brick slips and cement them onto the face of the existing old brickwork so's they...

What's the light switch mounted to the skirting controlling ? Nothing to do with your original question but it's interesting to note that there's no security seals on the gas meter input/output connections, the DNO terminal head and maybe also on the electric meter

I was meaning something low-tech out of Poundland (or elsewhere). Sometimes we over-think solutions to problems that doesn't really exist.

Buy a small torch and leave it on top of the CU. That way you'll also have a light if/when the CU trips out

Some of my best thoughts occur then :rolleyes::rolleyes:

I fully concur with your comment but the purpose was to satisfy the writer's requirement in a simple and (not particularly unusual) cost-effective manner

The diode-OR feature works on AC as well as DC. With a single diode in each lamp feed, there will be a 1/2wave signal available at each diode output. By coupling these outputs to a single indicator, when any diode is 'active' the OR signal is available. Because adjacent diodes are reverse...

Well worth a look and shows how best to facilitate earth connections

Of course not, but SWA correctly terminated by the use of the correct fittings isn't the same as indeterminate lengths of sheet metal-work coupled together by not-necessarily perfect bolting being used as the only earthing system in use. However, more to the point was that the original enquiry...

It's called evolutionary improvement in standards. We learn and build on what went before. I've seen open spring-lever type power switches on HV slate boards in use, but it doesn't make it right. Unfortunately, however, a great deal of evolutionary so-called 'improvement' invariably results in...

Could it be that there is confusion between ensuring the exposed metal trays, trunking and conduit must be continuously "earthed" to ensure it cannot inadvertantly develop a potential and the requirement to run a copper CPC to provide "earthing of equipment. To my mind it simply doesn't make...

Is it possible that your first batch was "as sawn" whilst the second was "planed smooth all round" If so, then undersized finished product is considered "normal" for wood supply - not that that makes it right. As to the banana sleeper, it's obviously a reject and the supplier should replace it...

If this batch was bought from the same source as the originals then tell them to take them back as they don't match what you previously bought. Why should you be lumbered (excuse the pun) with a sub-standard product.

I recall a comment from one of my school teachers, in 1960 when he said the price of electricity generated by nuclear power would be so cheap that it wouldn't be worth the "'Board's'" effort to charge for it. We live in hope :love:

??? When will electricity ever be cheap ??? I know what you mean, but the days of "cheap" electricity are long gone