Don't know if you can see it there, but its the best I could do with my phone

When I was a kid, I vaguely remember there being copper pipe called something like red stripe.  It was extra thin due to metal shortages and you could only fit soldered connectors to it, if you tried bending it or using compression fittings it was so thin it would just collapse.

Would this be from the same sort of time? Or is it just cheap crap? 😆

Are you sure the ends haven't been soldered? quite common with copper wire

woodsmith wrote on Jan 7^th, 2021, 12:59am:


1930.  Originally didn't have electricity when it was built.  Some of the old lead gas pipe for the lighting is still in place downstairs (i must get that pulled out and weighed in!)

It was originally wired with the multi-stranded cable, so I knownits not the original installationg.  There are at least 2 bits of major work that I know of since, easily identified by the workmanship.  The extension was built and some rewiring done downstairs by my late father-in-law.  All of this is very neatly laid out, every cable identified as to what it does and where it runs to.  Then there's the upstairs lighting which mostly looks like its the same cable as that pictured.  I don't known when that was done though.  The words "rats nest" spring to mind 😬