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Of course the other issue that normally impacts on domestic wiring/installations that's over 50 years old, is that its been attacked by weekend warriors or DIY'ers for the last 50 years. This normally manifest itself in RFC's being chopped up, with hidden jb's aplenty, connector strips at lighting points with hot lamps frying the cables and various faceplate changes ruining cable ends, especially in kitchens which have been replaced three times over, etc, etc.

Now if you could get the electrical equivalent of a short back & sides, to tidy things up, then perhaps? I've seen a few house purchases, where the new owner has spent thousands on new bathrooms & kitchens, replaced an ageing boiler and associated furred up pipes, but don't seem to want do the obvious thing of sorting out the impending doom below the floorboards.

A IR test might suggest things are hunky dory, but a rewire often reveals the whole sorry state of things. If I was to buy an old'ish house, I'd set aside some money to rewire, not matter what some meter told me. :)
 
Excuse my ignorance but why do you say that?
The schedule indicates a 1.0 cpc but the IR and Zs readings are omitted or overwritten as N/A. So I assume the circuits predominantly do not have cpcs even though there is one at the CU?
 

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