Forgive me if this is a dumb idiot question, but I'm not a sparky and I have a need to know.
My wife and I are in a 15th Century cottage and most of the electrics is the original wiring from when electricity came to the village in the early '50s - lead covered stuff for the most part. We had a new consumer unit put in when we came here, but now we want to embark on a full rewire to make sure it's all safe. With the exception of the kitchen (a PVC ring circuit about 20 years old) it's all surface clipped radial circuitry with almost no overhead lighting (the lights are standard lamps plugged into wall sockets).
I want it to have 2 rings mains, one upstairs one down, and may consider putting a lighting ring in as well, but it's not certain yet as we have very little overhead room (people were so much shorter back then...), but I absolutely do NOT want to chase any walls out, nor use ugly conduit/trunking. Is it legal to surface mount the cables and clip them as they currently are or have regs ruled this option out?
Thanks in advance.
My wife and I are in a 15th Century cottage and most of the electrics is the original wiring from when electricity came to the village in the early '50s - lead covered stuff for the most part. We had a new consumer unit put in when we came here, but now we want to embark on a full rewire to make sure it's all safe. With the exception of the kitchen (a PVC ring circuit about 20 years old) it's all surface clipped radial circuitry with almost no overhead lighting (the lights are standard lamps plugged into wall sockets).
I want it to have 2 rings mains, one upstairs one down, and may consider putting a lighting ring in as well, but it's not certain yet as we have very little overhead room (people were so much shorter back then...), but I absolutely do NOT want to chase any walls out, nor use ugly conduit/trunking. Is it legal to surface mount the cables and clip them as they currently are or have regs ruled this option out?
Thanks in advance.