Shocking! Surely they know to use grey for neutral and black for earth, if using a cable with 3Ph colours.
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40 years it’s been wired like this 
apparently….nice brass light fixture as well 
apparently….nice brass light fixture as well 
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Looks like a high ceiling.
Maybe they’ve taking “placing out of reach” a valid means of not getting shock over earthing it.
Maybe they’ve taking “placing out of reach” a valid means of not getting shock over earthing it.
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Nicely wired bathroom light. Exactly how I found it.
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Not dangerous, but a classic example of someone who's seen other installs and copied them without understanding why...
Or maybe he knows something about the conductivity of plastic....
(The armour was earthed at the source end)
Or maybe he knows something about the conductivity of plastic....
(The armour was earthed at the source end)
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And correctly stripped length!
It is not Flexishield as its CPC is stranded.
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Hi-Tuff I believe - though forget the official designation. Has a flexible metal sheath that is connected to CPC along it's length, so can be used in place of armoured in some circumstances (though it was only a short feed to another socket in this case).
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HiTuff (NYYJ) doesn't have a metallic sheath, it has an insulated CPC... at least all the HiTuff I've ever bought has. If the insulation on the live conductors is silicone rubber (it looks like it might be), it's an FP series cable unless I'm much mistaken.
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Awesome placement of the cooker isolator by the kitchen fitter.
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At least it is accessible , unlike some who put it behind a draw unit
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Yes I think you're right that it's not Hi-Tuff. There was some left over from an a/c install on site which I was asked to use. I checked it on a previous visit for suitability and can't find the note I made immediately, but I have a feeling it was BS8436, which is low Emission cable with similar properties to FP (which is BS7846 I believe). (Both listed in 522.6.204 as suitable for burial <50mm though it wasn't used for that in this case).
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I have seen plenty just thrown under the plinth , even in £1,000,000 new builds I find surface boxes just slung under the kitchen plinth for the fitters to plug in to
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Guessing they didn’t trust their own inspection. 
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100 years between inspections seems a touch high to me. 
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I assume the inspection year date was 2004 in which case it's outside the recommended inspection period by any stroke of the imagination. 
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Not anymore it isn’t.I assume the inspection year date was 2004 in which case it's outside the recommended inspection period by any stroke of the imagination.
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