Twin + e 2,5 mm price

[GCE]

Hi

The surfix and Twin and earth , steel coated copper is not SANS approved for house wiring - The volt drops across the wiring are way out of specification - It is being sold in " General Stores" and a magnetic quickly identifies the cable

The supposedly T&E is brought in under SANS1507 and called speaker wire
Sans1507 consists of 7 different parts ranging from housewire to service cables and I assume that one of them is speaker wire
I don't think the steel copper coated wire would work to well on speaker wire either
Pic attached

[ians]

What does this tell us ... it has become an even higher risk to sign off a COC in and existing premises ... once that twin is installed and plastered into the wall you would need to go around and check every single wire in the installation.

We back to public awareness ... people are on a tight budget ... it would make sense to use a person who can install a plug point for R500 including 50 m of twin ... the plug and box ... if you paying R2400 for 100 m of SANS approved wire ... you know you something is wrong.

[ians]

It seems we have reached a point that we would require every item bought would require the document for the material installed to prove that is is sold for the application and that it has approval.

I dont think people understand the implications of signing off a job with non compliant materials ... they do ... they just don't care because we all know we play a numbers game and the odds are in your favour ... the chance that someone might actually go out and carry out an investigation is so small that it is worth taking a chance.

If you can get away with running house 1.5mm house wire connected to bare overhead power lines ... hanging across the road into the bush and supply an entire informal development ... what are the chances you would get caught installing speaker twin wire that looks just like twin+e ?