How do you approach your Rewires?

[highspark]

Personally I always start on the upstairs lights. Then up sockets and move down. Be interesting to see where everyone starts.

 

[Andy78]

If it's an empty refurb, I start in the room that has no other trades in...... if it's occupied, play it by ear as everyone of those if different.

 

[telectrix]

i approach them the same way as i do with all work......., in the van.

 

[camerabloke]

i normally tiptoe up the drive in an effort as not to wake the **** up fairy

 

[Brightspark2]

i approach them the same way as i do with all work......., in the van.

Well if you hadnt said it I would of...

 

[7029 dave]

Personally I always start on the upstairs lights. Then up sockets and move down. Be interesting to see where everyone starts.

Yes the same, when I used to do them, No because don't do them anymore. :stooge_curly:

 

[uksparks]

If your like me, I do a bit on one circuit, then another, then go back again, kind of like to do a bit of all of them.

i hate rewires.

 

[dingledong]

I get there have a cup of tea walk around look around have a cup of tea ,have a think walk up the shop come back go to the cafe come back get my tools out of the van have a cup of tea then go home

 

[Richard Burns]

I get there have a cup of tea walk around look around have a cup of tea ,have a think walk up the shop come back go to the cafe come back get my tools out of the van have a cup of tea then go home

The archetypal British workman at his best!:angel_smile:

 

[Octopus]

With a copy of the agreed spec in my hand! and 2 x 100m of 2.5 and 2 x 100m of 1.5 in the back!

 

[davesparks]

Start at the top and work down, ending at the CU.

But not necessarily circuit by circuit. Day one is always upstairs lights but after that depends on the house.
So if you have the floor up in the back bedroom you do the power in that room and the lights in the room below at the same time, and the power below if no suspended floor below.

Sometimes it was easier to split the power circuits front and back rather than up and down.

 

[davesparks]

If your like me, I do a bit on one circuit, then another, then go back again, kind of like to do a bit of all of them.

i hate rewires.

That sound chaotic! You need order and method and a good plan to work efficiently and make the most money on a job.

 

[Guest77]

Agree with Andy in post 2, all jobs are different, certainly empty rooms first lol

 

[7029 dave]

And spent as long as it takes, planning an route for your riser's.

 

[uksparks]

I do need to be a bit more orderly when doing rewires, I just can never get in to it. I look at it and think oh god not another floor board to pull up etc...

 

[jamie-spark]

I don't think I could get out of bed in the morning if I had to do rewires :-/. I hate domestic. Think it would turn me into a jakey

 

[davesparks]

I do need to be a bit more orderly when doing rewires, I just can never get in to it. I look at it and think oh god not another floor board to pull up etc...

Yes but if you plan it right then you only have to take it up once, and you end up taking up a lot less boards too.

 

[Silly Sausage]

I don't think I could get out of bed in the morning if I had to do rewires

You're definitely not the infamous JRC then!

 

[shanky887614]

You're definitely not the infamous JRC then!

give me a dirty horrible plantroom, ankle deep in water any day of the week

(i wear 8 eyelet waterproof boots lol)

 

[Silly Sausage]

give me a dirty horrible plantroom, ankle deep in water any day of the week

(i wear 8 eyelet waterproof boots lol)

Me too!
Some of the spaces I've wriggled into in the bowels of ships...bilge, love it!!!
Almost got stuck upside down once in the keel!

 

[Geordie Spark]

If your like me, I do a bit on one circuit, then another, then go back again, kind of like to do a bit of all of them.

i hate rewires.

Doing them in such an arse about bollox way I would too.

I liked it best when I was doing a heating system at the same time. That way I knew where the pipes & cables were in relation to each other.

 

[Knobhead]

How do I approach a house rewire?

I don’t, I run away!

 

[PEG]

...Used to be a problem before i sourced that self adhesive 2.5 ribbon cable,100mm wide,.25mm thick,sticks to anything,just paint to match surface colour....just don't forget the RCD...:stooge_curly:

 

[nickblake]

mark everything out where its going if its chasing mark all the wall then work out cable runs , draw the kitchen layout on the wall from kitchen diagram then do all the chasing in one go then all the dust has gone dam good clean up then work from down stairs up as down stairs i find is harder end with the easy bits

 

[D Skelton]

How do I approach my rewires?

With a card machine at the ready!

 

[davesparks]

mark everything out where its going if its chasing mark all the wall then work out cable runs , draw the kitchen layout on the wall from kitchen diagram then do all the chasing in one go then all the dust has gone dam good clean up then work from down stairs up as down stairs i find is harder end with the easy bits

That sounds more like a refurb with new kitchen etc than a rewire!

 

[Geordie Spark]

Agree with Andy in post 2, all jobs are different, certainly empty rooms first lol

You'd agree with any daft bugger who stuck a can of Creamflow into you grubby little paw.

 

[dazza1981]

Agree with nick, mark everything out first plan routes and get all the chasing in done and out the way.
I personally dont give a monkeys if there is another trade in the room i want to get because im bloody going in there anyway lol.
Have a good wknd chaps !!!

 

[shanky887614]

Agree with nick, mark everything out first plan routes and get all the chasing in done and out the way.
I personally dont give a monkeys if there is another trade in the room i want to get because im bloody going in there anyway lol.
Have a good wknd chaps !!!

if there are other trades in the room grab goggle+dustmask and grinder

smoke them out lol

 

[Andy78]

Originally Posted by MDJ
Agree with Andy in post 2, all jobs are different, certainly empty rooms first lol

You'd agree with any daft bugger who stuck a can of Creamflow into you grubby little paw.

Daft bugger I may be but I don't touch that foamy filth watta !!​

 

[Chris sparky]

Got one starting next month. Shouldn't be too bad. Empty 3 bedder. No downlights anywhere (madness i know ). No carpet to lift either. I shall approach it with glee as opposed to my usual hatred of rewires.

 

[7029 dave]

Got one starting next month. Shouldn't be too bad. Empty 3 bedder. No downlights anywhere (madness i know ��). No carpet to lift either. I shall approach it with glee as opposed to my usual hatred of rewires.

Lucky you.

 

[Englishman]

I don't, I despise them, quoting ridiculously high always sees that I don't have to carry them out.

 

[Knobhead]

Five house rewires in forty years speaks volumes as to how much I enjoyed the job.
Of the five I had my arm twisted for four of them. Bloody families!
The other was my own house, couldn’t really get out of doing that. That was almost a never ending project. Divorce twenty years ago finally put an end to it and I’ve never touched domestic wiring since.

Give me a couple of 1000KVA transformers and the MV/LV switchgear, I’m happy.

 

[CockneyReject]

Lights first day, upstairs in the morning (usually done by bait) then downstairs, once they are out of the way get all the power pulled in then come mid week it's time to wreck the spot and do the chasing, then it's 2nd fix and do the DB and testing last, that's how we used to do them (pretty much always occupied council with a week per house) thesedays if anyone asks I bang a daft quote in and hope I never hear from them again, I don't mind doing the odd new build house if it's of a decent spec but I avoid domestic as much as I can

give me a dirty horrible plantroom, ankle deep in water any day of the week

(i wear 8 eyelet waterproof boots lol)

waterproof of boots or not mate I'd happily be knee deep in water barefooted in a plant room than do a rewire

plant rooms are usually my favourite bit of the job too, well once the pipeys have ****ed off

 

[D Skelton]

A few weeks ago I was in a ship's sewage tank connecting the new pump up to the supply and stink pipe. I honestly think I'd rather be doing that day in day out than arguing the ---- with my subordinates over whether to loop at the lights or the switches.

Rewires are fine with me, but unless it's either hi-spec or a job of love I'm not interested.

 

[shanky887614]

Lights first day, upstairs in the morning (usually done by bait) then downstairs, once they are out of the way get all the power pulled in then come mid week it's time to wreck the spot and do the chasing, then it's 2nd fix and do the DB and testing last, that's how we used to do them (pretty much always occupied council with a week per house) thesedays if anyone asks I bang a daft quote in and hope I never hear from them again, I don't mind doing the odd new build house if it's of a decent spec but I avoid domestic as much as I can



waterproof of boots or not mate I'd happily be knee deep in water barefooted in a plant room than do a rewire

plant rooms are usually my favourite bit of the job too, well once the pipeys have ****ed off

dont go barefoot, this is what you need