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Okay understand that, 1.5mm cable was a bad choice, 1mm cable's might have gone down together with a bit of lubricate such as fairy liquid thats what I have used, failing that chase out the other switch drop, or surface mini trunking.
Apologies if I am getting the wrong end of the stick but when you say 1.5mm cable was a bad choice you are saying that 1.5mm2 cable was used?
I can 100% confirm that all the cables used were 1.0mm2 both the three core & the twin & earth.
What seems to have happened back in the 50's when the conduit was installed they had the fantastic idea to flatten/crush the conduit a little that was plastered into the wall so it is more oval than round.
I can only guess but it seems they did this to avoid having to chase the walls out as much.
Even when using 1.0mm2 cable there was no way a three core with twin & earth way going to fit down that conduit with the sheath. He did try with fairy liquid as he asked me for my help to try & pull them through with him.