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I was (perhaps incorrectly) informed back around 2005 (coinciding with harmonisation of cable colours) that only LSF came with 'White' sheath, the 'normal' T&E was in now Grey sheathed!
There was a case recently on this forum with some low IR T&E in otherwise good looking condition, probably a crap make/batch though.
Didn't have an AFDD installed??I have, and most bizarrely! I'll have to dig through the archives to find a pic but 2-3 years ago a mate had a new problem in their (old) house that they'd been in for years and after some testing I'd narrowed it down to one cable that I could see both ends of, about 5m long and in visually perfect condition, not disturbed since installation many years earlier. After some headscratching and guestimation I peeled open a section of sheath to discover that there was a manufacturing break in the conductor, clearly a good couple of mm. There must have been enough of a bend or whatever at that point to have made the ends make contact and 'work' for the twenty odd years it had, but there was no signs of arcing etc. Most bizarre.
Now then.... go outside, say twenty Hail Mary's and never set foot in this hallowed place again.....Didn't have an AFDD installed??
Is that evidence we do need them
I'd always understood (albeit from a layman's position) that PVC T&E was grey and LSF was white, but over time have read several discussions about white T&E having long been used in some areas of Southern England.
It's possible that this has always been LSF, but those discussions led me to believe otherwise. From what I could ascertain, white T&E was used as this was what some wholesalers stocked.
Are we talking 80s here? I assumed white was the norm switched to at some time in the 70s, right up until the colour change. Had no idea it was a regional issue - but literally every house I see with 80s on wiring is in white here (Kent/London) (including my own) - and pretty sure it's not all LSF....This is correct. Before LSF T+E was available, one could get both white and grey PVC and some wholesalers had both, I think grey was marginally cheaper but white was usually more suitable where visible.
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