Question

[mort2376]

Working away in the foreign land they call London.

Incoming dno cable into a basement flat is cloth covered as shown in photo below.

Should this be upgraded ? Not the neatest dno install i know.

Thoughts please good people.

Yes i know there is something missing from the cut out. That's because I'm fitting a new Cu and I asked the seal fairy last night to remove the seals, and magically this morning they were gone

 

[Fleeting]

Old PILC cable wrapped with impregnated hessian. Under that is either steel tape or wire armour.

 

[mort2376]

Old PILC cable wrapped with impregnated hessian. Under that is either steel tape or wire armour.

So worth reporting to have replaced or not? It seems ok. Very sticky but not weeping or anything.

 

[Fleeting]

The head at some point has been changed so someone thought it was okay. Not ideal it is hanging it's weight on the head but have seen plenty of these like washing lines across basements, London is full of them.

 

[poni]

it will not work anyway someone's taken the fuse holder out,

 

[kerching]

I too have done missionary work in 'that London'. We had a cable in a cellar on Chancery Lane, looked like SWA but no,sheath. Contacted LEB they said it was almost certainly dead , so we left it