Question

[altec]

This might sound like a silly question, but it's just something I wondered about. I have seen houses which have been 'first fixed', and where cables enter mounting boxes, ceiling roses etc., a little outer insulation is removed from the end of the cable (with the edge of a side cutters for example). Why is this done? I've seen it two many times for it to be chance. Is it to identify the cable? and does it normally mean the same thing?

Thanks, Declan

 

[breezer]

it is indeed to mark the cable, depends who did it as to what they mean, but usually knicked is switched

 

[altec]

Thanks breezer, switched? is this the feed or the load?

 

[breezer]

i mean switched as in cable for a switch that is not yet present