OK, so how does it go with teams doing contract rewires? I'm not taking the Mick, or saying it can't be done, just curious. How many in the team, who does what sort of thing.
Ok see if you can imagine and try and follow this routine
Spark No 1 working downstairs
Spark No 2 wiring the property
Mate,laborer,2nd fixer.guy on less money than the other 2, call him what you will,for now he is No 3
Start
No 1 strips out the old mains and fits a ready made temp supply board
Spark 2 goes upstairs and starts moving furniture and carpets up,assisted by No 3
No 1 starts fitting trunking that's required for all of downstairs.
No 3 strips out old stuff down and up
No 2 gets boards up and drills the beams
No 3 jumps up and wires the attic
No 2 starts wiring under the boards
No 1 continues trunking
No 3 2nd fixes the attic
No 2 has cables prepared to drop down,he gets the cables up to the uostairs positions
(No 3 may delay 2nd fixing the attic to fish these cables downstairs to their positions for No 2
No 1 continues trunking
3 hours or so have gone and the attic is almost complete
The downstairs is almost trunked
The wiring is all but installed
No 3 finishes attic 2nd fix
No 2 starts relaying floorboards ready to 2nd fix the upstairs sockets
No 1 continues trunking and now putting lids on where the cables are now ready
No 3 finishes attic and starts on the downstairs 2nd fixing
No 2 starts 2nd fixing his upstairs sockets
No 1 continues trunking and putting lids on
6 hours has passed perhaps because they may have stopped momentarilly for a quick cup of tea(a dinner break is very rare)
No 1 is now fitting the consumer unit
No 2 is now cleaning upstairs and putting furniture back because its all 2nd fixed
No 3 is carrying on 2nd fixing the downstairs
A very short while later
No 2 is now downstairs helping finishing off 2nd fix with No 3
No 1 (who has completed the consumer unit) is helping
Power goes on ,check for correct working of sockets lights etc
Holes being patched with a filler of some sort
One man is loading the gear thats not needed onto the van,job almost done
By the way before testing is mentioned,this can be done very easily as the rewire progresses
Example, upstairs ring.last socket,test the continuity of the conductors,figure of 8,probably never done,Zs at each socket at the end of job
Many firms, if not most firms, rely on the bang test, the actual testing was done by the likes of me going in after the job was completed
They work very hard and believe me,most do the job very well
There are always all sorts in all jobs and some may be excellent, others I wouldn't trust putting up a shelf
The system completely disregards bs 7671 test procedures for safe use of the installation,but it works,it keeps the price down.it pays the guys very well indeed, and it needs young fit skilled sparks to handle it
