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I made a very rare trip to my local wholesalers today (I usually buy stuff online now and have it delivered) and was speaking to the manager who I have known since college.
He reckons in the coming amendment to the regs , grey pvc pvc twin and earth cable will be written off and we will be required to use LSF / LSOH cable domestically...

anyone else heard this ?
 
a sealed roll of old colour 2.5 sells for about ÂŁ100 on eBay ÂŁÂŁÂŁ
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Knew I had some in a box somewhere - ÂŁ50 to anyone who asks nicely... ?

No idea why 16.5m was a sensible length either??
 
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On some older jobs I've been to the looped cables are in grey T&E and the switch drops in white T&E I assume this was to make the switch drops easily identifiable when rewiring
 
100% the old 'white t&e' was not LSOH. I've seen discussions elsewhere and noone seems to know why two variants were produced, but distribution does appear to be regional. Here in the Midlands you could get grey at one shop, walk into another and it was white.
The only trend I noticed was the white stuff seemed more prevalent in DIY type shops. I'mm looking at a length now - it's just normal supple PVC, but white. Then post 2004 it became LSOH.

On the contrary at our site, there's some grey "old colour" t&e marked as LSOH
 
I’m sure the b&q white was around the 90’s, when I was doing odd homers for family…

at work at that time we had pvc and lsoh/lsf both in grey. Slightly different shades, depended on manufacturer, so had to check the labels before booking it out to jobs. Huge price difference at that time.
 
I still can’t get my head round why the market for old colours is so red hot.

I recently saw an old drum of 1mm 3c (red yellow blue) sell for nearly 100 quid

are there a lot of of really sentimental sparks still out there installing old colours ?
 
There’s a farm near me got coils of old colour swa. It’ll get used.

although…. If the cores are identified with the new colours in the form of sleeving….. is it against regs to use it?
 
I still can’t get my head round why the market for old colours is so red hot.

I recently saw an old drum of 1mm 3c (red yellow blue) sell for nearly 100 quid

are there a lot of of really sentimental sparks still out there installing old colours ?

It's people wanting to do 'unofficial' jobs so they can make out it's been there for years.
 
I converted my hall lights to two way year before last and used some old red, yellow and blue which was white sheathed still got some left can't be dealing with brown, black and grey. No rcd protection either??
 
I converted my hall lights to two way year before last and used some old red, yellow and blue which was white sheathed still got some left can't be dealing with brown, black and grey. No rcd protection either??
And the test cert is dated 2004!
 

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