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Hi all
Any regs that allow use of old colour cable ie-- red and black if sleeved with new colours (brown blue)
Just found full drum of 10mm in back of my garage and be great if can use it and sleeve to new colours
 
no reason why not. ( or date the cert 2004 :dizzy::dizzy::dizzy:)
 
i once bought a 100m drum of 2.5mm in R/Bk from a car boot. ( c. 2011) for £10. soon got used.
 
yous be able to wire a few 10.5kW showers at a competitive price.
 
Must admit board change I did this week (another thread) I extended some 1.5 blacks using some new black from old stock. Made sense as much of the 80s wiring had blue line conductors.
 
I'd personally weigh it in or flog it. I'd not be using it for new jobs.

Omg , no way would I scrap a perfectly usable reel of new cable.
I still have loads of red and black singles from when my dad was a factory electrician. I could never just scrap it...
 
I would have no hesitation whatsoever to use old colours:cool:

The only reason I would not do so is if the copper cores had oxidised,the insulation was somehow or other damaged or for some obscure reason I had run out of identification tape or letters

Having said that,I'm open to changing my opinion if I was provided with a justifiable reason(other than "they are not the current colours") :)
 
With one exception, BS7671 allows us to use whatever colour we want, as long as we correctly identify at the terminations.
The exception is single core G/Y.
 

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