UK Is this wiring in the attic with insulation okay?

[123]

Is this a property in the UK? The cable doesn't look like T&E to me, lots of yellow flat and light red flat cable

 

[freddo]

Is this a property in the UK? The cable doesn't look like T&E to me, lots of yellow flat and light red flat cable

I did think this didn't look like UK cables, the clips look like staples more a USA thing than anything we have here.

 

[Dustydazzler]

yellow flat cable is a give away that it is romex , which is very common in America / Canada

metal staples are also very common in america / canada

untidy work and throwing cables in the attic with wreckless abandon is a world wide phenomenon

 

[Dave OCD]

I can remember many times clipping cables in uninsulated loft spaces and you'd make it nice and neat, almost like surface clipping on show. You'd end up with very sore aching knees but also satisfaction that a good job had been done. These days it's just thrown in,another source of annoyance.
But on the other hand an old boy that I used to work with told me a tale of rewiring houses in mining areas of Yorkshire where the lofts could have an inch of black filthy sooty dust sitting above the ceilings, apparently they'd get all the upstairs lighting cables to every switch and light in as fast as possible with the ends coming through the loft down to floor level. They'd then sit on the landing and connect it all into an 'RB4' type JB then throw the whole assembly back up into the loft. So roughness isn't a new thing by any means.