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<blockquote data-quote="binky" data-source="post: 552632" data-attributes="member: 490"><p>various ages of cable, but what I can see is white PVC which is not as old as the house, and I suspect is still in good condition. What other cable I can see is light grey, so not that old either. Original looking dark grey cable (painted white) seems to orginate from the old brown board, which I would say has 3 rewirabe fuses in it for lights sockets and cooker, but maybe redundant judging by bear ends of cable we can see next to it. At a rough guess you wont find much wrong with it.</p><p></p><p>Recommendation is test to acertain actual condition of the wiring, and update boards. No doubt you will be doing works to update the property, like add sockets, redecorate etc etc. So dependent of the test results, if you need to rewire anything, that's the time to do it, and you can complete works on a room by room basis, splitting circuits to make the system more reliable if necessary.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="binky, post: 552632, member: 490"] various ages of cable, but what I can see is white PVC which is not as old as the house, and I suspect is still in good condition. What other cable I can see is light grey, so not that old either. Original looking dark grey cable (painted white) seems to orginate from the old brown board, which I would say has 3 rewirabe fuses in it for lights sockets and cooker, but maybe redundant judging by bear ends of cable we can see next to it. At a rough guess you wont find much wrong with it. Recommendation is test to acertain actual condition of the wiring, and update boards. No doubt you will be doing works to update the property, like add sockets, redecorate etc etc. So dependent of the test results, if you need to rewire anything, that's the time to do it, and you can complete works on a room by room basis, splitting circuits to make the system more reliable if necessary. [/QUOTE]
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