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Marcus Vaughan

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Well - I recently rewired a house and planned ahead for a proposed single story extension.

The main house is now finished and occupied. Carpets - the lot. Cables are under a suspended timber floor in the kitchen and the plan was to extend these circuits (sockets and lights only) into this new extension (dining room) - all under the floor.

Now the builder had changed his mind from suspended timber and wants to put a concrete floor in the extension.

Any advice?

Conduit/Flexicon?

No real opportunity to run a new circuit under the first floor floorboards anymore...
 
How are the central heating pipes going to be run into the extension?
 
Tell the silly billy, to remove the plasterboard ceiling, so you can run your cable in the ceiling void.
 
Hard impact 25mm2 plastic conduit will be fine in floor screed, just make sure no water pipes are near the cabling
 
Top tip ............ get on site earlier when the walls start going up ..... then discuss these things with the builder.............. avoids so much hassle later on.
 
I don’t really see an issue, drill through, put the cables in conduit or trunking in the deck, bring the cables up in the 150mm zone in corner of room and wire through the ceiling in the extension and drop down to accessories. Builder can insulate/screed over the top of the conduit/trunking that’s in the deck.
 
Well - I recently rewired a house and planned ahead for a proposed single story extension.

The main house is now finished and occupied. Carpets - the lot. Cables are under a suspended timber floor in the kitchen and the plan was to extend these circuits (sockets and lights only) into this new extension (dining room) - all under the floor.

Now the builder had changed his mind from suspended timber and wants to put a concrete floor in the extension.

Any advice?

Conduit/Flexicon?

No real opportunity to run a new circuit under the first floor floorboards anymore...
It's like a lot of builders these days, no thought for anyone else, get the work done, and screw anyone else who gets in the way, this type need lessons in manners, teamwork etc, take him to one side and give him a stiff talking to, if that fails just tell the client what has transpired,and let him deal with the builder,lack of communication all round I think, bad project management, need to keep your eye on the ball Marcus.
 

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