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rubber insulated cloth covered tinned copper submain cable in galv. conduit.

Legh Richardson
Had a look at an installation which has a submain running approximately 25m to supply a kitchen.

We thought umm this looks interesting, cut a slice off at the output of the switched fuse and re-terminated. The cloth, and rubber appears to be in reasonable condition for what appears to be nearly 70 years old. An insulation test at 500V gave a reasonable result (>500M) and a leakage test gave the same, 0.41mA.

The cable is out of date but appears to be still serviceable. It is not heavily used and the ambient temperature is generally quite low. I think I might advise that the cable is replaced by a newer edition or at least regularly checked every year. Has anybody got any other ideas?


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    Legh Richardson:

    One would have thought it was easy to find a 'responsible person' to be the maitenance duty holder of a village hall. I was told by a person who is on the committee that the person ordering the work is the committee and all correspondance should be by email only. There is no post box facility at the village hall anyway but the person  would niether provide her name or a postal address. This one's a first for me as I usually deal with people face to face. I can also appreciate that there maybe issues associated with privacy. I suppose it will be up to the insurance company to decide whether the 'committee' is a suitable person ordering the work.




    Legally, in general terms, a "person" need not be an individual biological person - it can be a company, for example.


    Whether the various pieces of electricity legislation require a person to be biological or not is another matter (and one which I have not researched) but it may well be that the committee is the responsible person. It may be that the chairman or another officer has been nominated as the responsible person. It would certainly avoid having to appoint somebody new when committee members change.

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    Legh Richardson:

    One would have thought it was easy to find a 'responsible person' to be the maitenance duty holder of a village hall. I was told by a person who is on the committee that the person ordering the work is the committee and all correspondance should be by email only. There is no post box facility at the village hall anyway but the person  would niether provide her name or a postal address. This one's a first for me as I usually deal with people face to face. I can also appreciate that there maybe issues associated with privacy. I suppose it will be up to the insurance company to decide whether the 'committee' is a suitable person ordering the work.




    Legally, in general terms, a "person" need not be an individual biological person - it can be a company, for example.


    Whether the various pieces of electricity legislation require a person to be biological or not is another matter (and one which I have not researched) but it may well be that the committee is the responsible person. It may be that the chairman or another officer has been nominated as the responsible person. It would certainly avoid having to appoint somebody new when committee members change.

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