Old colours

[kingeri]

I have acquired a fairly large amount of old colours T&E, all brand new rolls. I am considering what to do with it. I believe it can still be used if you sleeve brown and blue, is this correct? Seems a bit rough though somehow.

I have also considered just scrapping it, but don't think I can be bothered stripping it all.

Finally, I see it is going for big money on ebay, but then I can imagine some DIYer buying it to make it look like old work and killing himself.

Any thoughts?

 

[Taylortwocities]

IIRC you can't install old colours and still comply with BS7671.

BS7671 Appendix 7 syas that sleeving etc is permitted. I'd go for that and put a mixed colours sticker on the CU.

Not sure what/if you paid for the cable, but if there's profit I'd be using the eBay option. Caveat emptor:wink_smile:

 

[DurhamSparky]

just use it as it is...!!!

or sell it on ebay!! bugger tot he DIY'er he can kill him self with brown/blue...!

 

[kingeri]

I didn't pay for it! I think I might go for the ebay option, thanks guys.

 

[rich.250]

Or just scrap it as household cable....
Bugger stripping it, I've found you don't loose much doin it that way by the time you take off the insulation weight and the --- of a job stripping it lol

 

[Knobhead]

Use it with sleeveing.
As far as I know the only colours you can’t re-sleeve is green/yellow.

 

[telectrix]

agree with tony. far better to get paid for it as cable than as scrap.

 

[Farmelectrics]

If some ones daft enough to buy it sell it to them

 

[Knobhead]

Makes me wonder what they’ve done with the colours in the 200 pair telemetry cables I used to use.
It used to take me two days to make each cable end off.

 

[Top Cat]

Makes me wonder what they’ve done with the colours in the 200 pair telemetry cables I used to use.
It used to take me two days to make each cable end off.

What 4 days for each pair!

 

[Knobhead]

Bad Kitty!

Two days for 400 cores, all loomed with thread.

You would just dive in to the middle and make a fur ball out of it.

 

[Dave 85]

If somone put a load of old colours T&E in my house I cant say I'd be best pleased. Any electrician doing an EICR, for a potential buyer for example, would probably assume that the rewire that is supposed to have been done, has in fact, not been done at all. I'd just flog the stuff.

 

[kingeri]

I could use it for additions and alterations, sleeved and noted on cert. Wouldn't use it for a rewire.

 

[telectrix]

what really gets up my nose, apart from the gross stupidity of these new colours anyway, is that FP200 now comes in brown/blue. since when did a regulation come in that 24V d.c. cables should be any colour other than red (+), black(-).?

 

[Knobhead]

and if it’s sleeved correctly at each termination point?

You can use Sky Blue Pink with Yellow Dots as the insulating medium. So long as it’s correctly identified at each termination.

Do you use Brown / Brown T+E for switch drops? No you’ll sleeve the blue as brown! Now tell me, where is the difference?