Cabling where practicality goes a miss

[Charlie_]

But you're the only person who has raised the subject of SY etc in this thread? NYY-J has been suggested which is made to a BS-EN standard so is compliant for installations subject to bs7671.

Which standard please?

What is the issue with being the only person?

 

[Tony Reidy]

Would any of your guys actually run t&e,between the clips of the guttering,around the front of a house, porch like extension.
Seems the only way to do it,the cable would be hidden ...but...what’s your take on this.
It’s gonna be a rubbish job anyway.

No

 

[Squid]

Not sure if you are being serious, but anytime I see T/E installed externally, I always prepare myself for more bodges inside the property.

I frequently see people on their mobile phones when driving, but it doesn't make me think that lots of people are doing it so its okay!

20 years ago it was accepted practice, regs changed the same as with seat belts........

 

[peterhyper]

20 years ago it was accepted practice, regs changed the same as with seat belts........

I did the 16th edition, and I don't recall 20 years ago T/E being okay to install outside, but with you saying that and someone already liking your comments, then perhaps I must have been doing it wrong back then by not installing it outside.

 

[mattg4321]

I don't think I've ever installed T&E outside with no containment.

Proper lash up in my opinion.

 

[Charlie_]

Definitely not the done thing around 2000..which only just feels like yesterday

 

[Deleted member 26818]

I remember seeing some flood lights round a Council yard wired in T&E.
Looked like they’d used scaffold poles to mount the floods and run the T&E up the inside of the pole.
There was about 10 or 12 inches of the cable showing between where it exited the pole and entered the flood.

 

[ipf]

I remember seeing some flood lights round a Council yard wired in T&E.
Looked like they’d used scaffold poles to mount the floods and run the T&E up the inside of the pole.
There was about 10 or 12 inches of the cable showing between where it exited the pole and entered the flood.

They don't have a Clerk of Works on jobs like they used to have in the past. Just another downgrade of trades in general.

 

[Squid]

I did the 16th edition, and I don't recall 20 years ago T/E being okay to install outside, but with you saying that and someone already liking your comments, then perhaps I must have been doing it wrong back then by not installing it outside.

I may have been taking the pee pee with that one.........

 

[Deleted member 26818]

They don't have a Clerk of Works on jobs like they used to have in the past. Just another downgrade of trades in general.

This was back in the mid 90s.
Don’t know how long They’d been there?

 

[ipf]

This was back in the mid 90s.
Don’t know how long They’d been there?

Seemed to disappear about 15 years ago around here, I remember.