If you don't care whether the installation is compliant with the current wiring regs, then maybe it's the only issue for you. As you know, I agree with you that the regs probably do allow oversleeving of the G/Y, even if it is an 'orrible practice - but if the cable without a CPC is considered non-compliant, then it is non-compliant regardless of considerations of core colours/identification.
Us ? How many have said 'No'?
As John has said, even if you can find no regulation which specifically prohibits it, it is not possible to do it and comply with other specific regulations.
Many people are very narrow/'focussed' in their thinking, and address only the question they have been asked. If you ask them only about oversleeving the G/Y, they may therefore fail to even think about the fact that this implies you are going to have no core left to use as a CPC. Hence, if you actually want to know whether the totality of the situation (oversleeved G/Y and no CPC) is regarded as compliant with the regs, then you really need to ask about both issues.
You might perhaps ask your insurers whether they are happy for you to use an (oversleeved) G/Y core as a live conductor.
I meant how many here have said no.
No, I can read and am quite satisfied with the conclusion on the forum.
There would be no point.
You're talking about two rather different issues - (a) whether or not the practice you're describing is compliant with BS7671, and (b) the fact that one particular inspector is happy to sign off the work which involves this practice. Although, in an ideal world, they should be the same issue, in the real world that aint necessarily so!
It is also unprofessional, and immoral, to expect any tradesman with any self respect or sense of professionalism to re-use or reconnect same.
Not for as long as ignorant clowns like knows****all are around.
There's not even a "should" here - that MUST never happen, and if found MUST be replaced or disconnected.
Spoken like a true plumber who knows SFA about testing, and cares even less.
Actually no - the best one can hope for, and the least one can expect from a professional is that it gets sorted, and that the "opinions" (if such intellect-free dribblings can be termed such) of t**ts like cares****all are ignored.
I'm sure they do. All sorts of lazy, incompetent, DGAS people think all sorts of proper behaviour is too much of a hassle.
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