Big mistake

333rocky333 · 31 Jan 2008

Tidied up the garage and had loads of red and black Twin and earth, thought because of new regs , that I would never use it.

Some were brand new unopened rolls.

Took to scrap they made me break off the wrapping and metal drums before they would even take it .

Got about £80 the lot

Just looked on E bay and people are paying about £40 a coil for it now

mdbalson · 7 Feb 2008

Yes they are buying them for the "Work done before 2004"

alarmnewb · 15 Feb 2008

333rocky333 said:
Tidied up the garage and had loads of red and black Twin and earth, thought because of new regs , that I would never use it.

Some were brand new unopened rolls.

Took to scrap they made me break off the wrapping and metal drums before they would even take it .

Got about £80 the lot

Just looked on E bay and people are paying about £40 a coil for it now

Live and learn lol

ban-all-sheds · 15 Feb 2008

mdbalson said:
Yes they are buying them for the "Work done before 2004"

Or because they see no need to gratuitously create a hazard in their installation where none existed before.

ColJack · 16 Feb 2008

you're not condoning this obvious flouting of part P are you BAS???

ban-all-sheds · 16 Feb 2008

What people do is up to them, when there are no issues of professional misconduct involved.

I support the continued use of old-colour cables not to disguise when the work was done but to avoid deliberately introducing an avoidable risk into existing installations.

saxondale · 16 Feb 2008

ban-all-sheds said:
What people do is up to them, when there are no issues of professional misconduct involved.

I want to move to BAS land, sounds great - the smell of bullshit might be over powering mind

ebee · 17 Feb 2008

Using the "Proper Colours" rather than the "Killer Colours" purely in order to avoid mixups makes perfect sense.

Using proper colours purely as a way of disguising work done after Part P is totally stupid, killer colours were around for ages prior to Part P.

plugwash · 18 Feb 2008

ebee said:
Using proper colours purely as a way of disguising work done after Part P is totally stupid, killer colours were around for ages prior to Part P.

for ordinary british fixed wiring cables (T&E,SWA,split con, conduit singles etc) it was a year or two from the official introduction date of the new colors to the introduction of part P, less if you work on the dates when new colors were readilly availible. a year or two of offset will easilly get forgotton in a few decades time.

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Big mistake

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