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OP if your brothers not happy with the install. Put together a letter or an email of your concerns, and send it to the sales team, with whom you've made your purchase.

Ask them to address these matters. If that cable has a securing stuffing gland at one end, why hasn't it got one at the other, for example. The inner core should not be exposed.
 
It looks rushed in. you can easily wire PVC/PVC T & E through the voids and keep it neat. I think it could be 4.0mm 3 core SWA (I have had the jacket in SWA white) The SWA should be earthed at least one end SWA should be made off in some sort of compression gland.
 
The CU end of the SWA has been glanded - but with a stuffing gland:
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Now I've received the pictures, I cannot identify what the 'allegedly SWA' cable really is - can anyone identify it from the image below?
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So the SWA is not earthed.
 
We've now firmly established that the conductors are 2.5 sqmm. The spec is not embossed on the cable jacket where we'd expect to find it, but each of the 7 strands of copper in each of the 3 cores is around 0.7 mm in diameter, so πr² X 7 gives us 2.5 sqmm
 
We've now firmly established that the conductors are 2.5 sqmm. The spec is not embossed on the cable jacket where we'd expect to find it, but each of the 7 strands of copper in each of the 3 cores is around 0.7 mm in diameter, so πr² X 7 gives us 2.5 sqmm

Only person that actually clarify what spec this cable is, is the installer.
 
The job hasn't been signed off or certified yet. Anyway, I'm advising that my brother shouldn't accept this work.
The contractor was going to do the external run in T&E until my brother (a civil engineer by profession) insisted that SWA be used.
Just been looking at this thread again, and have to ask why would your Brother stipulate SWA?
 
The job hasn't been signed off or certified yet. Anyway, I'm advising that my brother shouldn't accept this work.
The contractor was going to do the external run in T&E until my brother (a civil engineer by profession) insisted that SWA be used.
Just been looking at this thread again, and have to ask why would your Brother stipulate SWA?
 
looks like SWA as Andy says, with the bedding exposed, going to the isolator,and some stripped out inner from isolator to CCU. whatever it is, it's a complete abortion and needs ripping out.
and i got a "bad spelling" for that by a member who's posted less than 30 times in 8 years. hmmm.
 
Cable Specification: NYY-J Mains and Control Cable Non Armoured manufactured to standard IEC60502-1 and VDE 0276-603 and available in sizes 5mm to 16mm and in 2, 3, 4, 5 and 7 cores. The cable features solid plain copper conductors, PVC insulated, PVC filler, PVC outer sheath. Black. 600/1000 volts grade to IEC60502-1 and VDE 0276-603. For installation indoors and outdoors as underground, or in cable ducts, installations with additional protection where mechanical damage is unexpected.

Am I reading this right?
 

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