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And the first time I came across twin brown I asked a customer to pop to Poofix on a weekend to get 100m 1.5 T&E and they returned with 2x 50m reels “as it worked out a lot cheaper” - because it was twin brown! That made the feed on the lighting circuit interesting....
 
And the first time I came across twin brown I asked a customer to pop to Poofix on a weekend to get 100m 1.5 T&E and they returned with 2x 50m reels “as it worked out a lot cheaper” - because it was twin brown! That made the feed on the lighting circuit interesting....
The last train brown I collected (yesterday) the wholesalers said "there's your 2.5 masquerading as a bit of twin brown" :)

For those unaware Irish Standard 201 cable has a full-sized and insulated cpc which gives the cable the appearance of the next cable size up for British Standard cable. (I stock both Irish Standard and British Standard cable.
 
I ran neutrals to my upstairs switches from the loft. Pulling 3C+E with T+E worked perfectly for all but one which it turns out ran through a couple of really tight holes drilled through the stud frame.

Some choice words were uttered when the tape snapped, but on the bright side I'm now a lot better at using my access rods than I was before!
 

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