Old cables

[rossage]

Hi... just a quickie

After a complete domestic re-wire with all new chases, socket & switch locations etc. Is it ok to leave the old cables in place? or do they all have to be ripped out?

Can't find anything in the regs about this.

Cheers!

 

[ricicle]

It is good practice to rip out as much as is possible .

 

[rossage]

Okie dokie, cheers.

Was planning to rip out everything visible, but didn't fancy hacking walls to bits to pull out dead cables that are nowhere near new ones.

Is there anything in the regs or OSG about it?

 

[RF Lighting]

We remove as much as possible, but if it involges chopping out / spoiling decorations we just cut off as much as possible.

The more old stuff you remove, the more money the scrap man gives you

 

[markie]

Thats if it's worth the bother to burn/strip off the plastic

 

[RF Lighting]

It certainly is

 

[ricicle]

£800/tonne if you don't strip it

 

[markie]

£800/tonne if you don't strip it

how long would it take to make up a tonne

 

[ricicle]

£800/tonne if you don't strip it

how long would it take to make up a tonne

Depends how many industrial plants you get to de - commission

 

[RF Lighting]

Takes all our lads about 6 months

We divvy it up between us and go out on the lash


(We burn all ours below 16.0mm² and strip the rest)

I stripped 150kg of clean copper from a single busbar chamber once

 

[markie]

£800/tonne if you don't strip it

how long would it take to make up a tonne

Depends how many industrial plants you get to de - commission

I that case then it's worth it but i was thinking of the domestic side of things

 

[ricicle]

Trouble is you got to be quicker than the Diddys

 

[markie]

Takes all our lads about 6 months

We divvy it up between us and go out on the lash


(We burn all ours below 16.0mm² and strip the rest)

I stripped 150kg of clean copper from a single busbar chamber once

Every now and then we get an old copper tank left up in a loft so we weight it in and split it, the last one was a few months ago along with some piping and we got £80