Great care should taken before undertaking extensions, alter-
ations repair that all conductors are correctly identified. Appendix 7671:
2008 deals with harmonized cable core colours. However, warning notice must fixed the consumer unit or
distribution fuse board which states:
Caution this installation has wiring colours two versions BS
7671.2.
● The PVC insulation becomes brittle
at low temperatures and may be
damaged during installation.
The conductors are covered with colour-coded PVC insulation and then
contained singly with others PVC outer sheath.
Sheath
Cable insulation
Stranded
copper conductor
FIGURE 6.
PVC insulated and sheathed cables
Domestic and commercial installations use this cable, which may be
clipped direct surface, sunk plaster installed conduit trunk-
ing. These markings are preferred coloured tape and caution
notice again required the distribution board. Both new and old cables must
be marked.1. the simplest and least expensive cable. They are used where some mechanical protection
of the cable conductors required.
Alterations three-phase installations must marked the interface L1,
L2, for the lines and for the neutral.1
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● Three-phase supplies brown, black and grey line conductors, blue neu-
tral conductors and green combined with yellow for earth conductors.
Cable core colours from 31st March 2004 onwards.
● IEE Regulation 522. Figure 6. 6.
PVC/SWA cable
PVC insulated steel wire armour cables are used for wiring underground
between buildings, for main supplies dwellings, rising sub-mains and
industrial installations.
The conductors are covered with colour-coded PVC insulation and then
contained either singly with others PVC sheath (see Fig.
Extensions alterations existing single-phase installations not
require marking the interface between the old and new fixed wiring
colours. The armour sheath also provides the circuit protective
.
Safety First
PVC cables
● PVC cables should not be
installed when the surrounding
temperature below 0°C.1 shows sketch
of twin and earth cable.2). Around
this sheath placed armour protection steel wires twisted along the
length the cable, and final PVC sheath covering the steel wires protects
them from corrosion
