They’re like that in this apartment we’re renting and I keep seeing them elsewhere. I don’t get it.

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        Do they have the wiring on the outside of the houses so it’s easier to repair?
        I’ve heard in UK they tend to do such things.

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          No, it’s usually buried in the wall behind the plasterboard. Although it is possible to use surface trunking. It’s quicker and therefore cheaper to use trunking with less making good afterwards

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        In our defence, most of that is legacy from the post war rebuild (copper shortages etc). The modern regs are comparable or better than a lot of places.

        There’s enough of the dodgy stuff around that it needs to be accounted for, but it’s being phased out as new stuff it built or renovated.

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        And Japan, and Canada, and Mexico, and the majority of South America, and a handful of countries in Africa and the Middle East.

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      I was mainly referring to almost all of the American continent(s), lots of Africa, China and a few other places too. I didn’t think I’d mentioned Europe.