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I think you would have to install a switchfuse in the meter box regardless of the length, otherwise you'd be relying on the company fuse to provide the protection.
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yes , i usually fit a KMF as i run the tails, new builder who seems to know more than most as usually you can tell them anything to make your life easy with the install, but he seems to know quite alot about the regs as we were going round the property. ill probably be able to do it in tails when i explained the ball ache of installing SWA.
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Grand
yes , i usually fit a KMF as i run the tails, new builder who seems to know more than most as usually you can tell them anything to make your life easy with the install, but he seems to know quite alot about the regs as we were going round the property. ill probably be able to do it in tails when i explained the ball ache of installing SWA.
Cheers
Grand
The last SWA submain I installed in a house between a garage and an internal cupboard where the CU was sited was a real pain, used 25mm 3 core and it was like an iron bar and very inflexible, for some reason it's trickier at that size than it was years ago, unless I'm getting old and weak.![]()
Yes I'm sure 16mm would have been fine Dave [12m run and also partly under an insulated floor] but it was an all electric property and I just happened to have enough 25mm left over from another job. So I made it hard work for myself really.![]()
Might have been LS0H it's a biatch to stripThe last SWA submain I installed in a house between a garage and an internal cupboard where the CU was sited was a real pain, used 25mm 3 core and it was like an iron bar and very inflexible, for some reason it's trickier at that size than it was years ago, unless I'm getting old and weak.![]()
That's makes sense, use up the offcuts, otherwise you end up like me with a shed full of offcuts which might come in handy one day but you never use.
Might have been LS0H it's a biatch to strip
Yep been there.![]()
Tho bs 6724 swa has xlpe insulation but LS0H bedding which is tougher than the average xlpe swaIt was XLPE rather than PVC Ian which is definitely tougher.![]()
Haha it's terrible in the winter when it's gone harder with the coldI think it probably was Ian, it certainly had me sweating.![]()
Haha it's terrible in the winter when it's gone harder with the cold
Looks better with a shroud Dave.Why would you fit a shroud over brass locknuts?
What advantage does the shroud offer on a CW gland?
There was a discussion on another forum which concluded that the shroud was unnecessary so j didn't fit one.
Looks better with a shroud Dave.
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