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Guessing you’re from the UK where you seem to have fancy pre configured sub boards. In Australia the standard and 99% of house installs are just hand wired with single wires from breaker to breaker and they’re twisted together and rammed into the bottom of the breakers :)

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Germany, and I've worked on construction sites and in stage tech for a time in my career.

What you describe is... beyond awful and an absurd fire risk.

Lmao I moved from NZ to UK and the house wiring here has very often not been touched anywhere from the 60s-80s or so.

They are very slowly modernising here, but they seem to have a cultural resistance to change/modernisation; they're in love with the old days.

Very different to Aus/NZ where we're eager to get the latest stuff/NZ is often used as a test market.

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