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Preparing a flat for renting

Harry Macdonald
Hi all,

I would be very grateful for some advice. 

My daughter is having her Edinburgh 1st floor flat prepared for renting and it needs some work highlighted by an electrical safety report. Some things have been noted as requiring remedial work that seem odd to me:
  • Two sockets are noted as being wired in Aluminium Twin & Earth cable. Is this likely? It looks to me like stranded copper.  Would it need replacing even if it is as this would be a pig of a job as the wiring is under a laminate floor.

  • The electrician has quoted for adding rubber grommets to all socket back boxes. I know that this is good practice but is it necessary before a property can be rented.?

  • The gas meter is plastic with metal pipes in and out. It is in the ground at the front of the house. Immediately through the wall is the termination point for the DNO supply with a big earth terminal with the rising (copper) gas pipe a few inches away. The Electrician says that the incoming gas supply must be bonded to the Flat main earth point, i.e. up the stairs and across a doorway and not the the building main earth point. Is he correct?


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    seconded fort that being tinned copper - as well as the visible gold flash at the neutral tips,  if you try and  twist ally like that it snaps.

    I presume your inspecting sparks is young and keen, but has not had much to do with real installations - there must be thousands of miles of this still in service, which makes you  wonder about his other comments..


    (tinning was originally  because the sulpher in vulcanized rubber tarnishes the copper quite quickly  - and when PVC cable first came in, it was a direct copy of the existing rubber.

    Now there is almost no rubber left in service that is not obsolete, the need to tin coat has disappeared except in cables for use hostile atmospheres, or w here even a little corrosion would be catastrophic, like very thin wires..)
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    seconded fort that being tinned copper - as well as the visible gold flash at the neutral tips,  if you try and  twist ally like that it snaps.

    I presume your inspecting sparks is young and keen, but has not had much to do with real installations - there must be thousands of miles of this still in service, which makes you  wonder about his other comments..


    (tinning was originally  because the sulpher in vulcanized rubber tarnishes the copper quite quickly  - and when PVC cable first came in, it was a direct copy of the existing rubber.

    Now there is almost no rubber left in service that is not obsolete, the need to tin coat has disappeared except in cables for use hostile atmospheres, or w here even a little corrosion would be catastrophic, like very thin wires..)
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