rewire

[growler]

the house i am due to rewire has floorboards on the ground floor, can i rewire the sockets from underneath the same as you would the first floor ? are we permitted to drill out as normal ? tia

 

[telectrix]

course you can, but i'd recommend clipping cables under floor where possible, and first, ensure there's no rodent presence.

 

[7029 dave]

Way you go, no issue.

 

[growler]

thanks lads !

 

[DPG]

I'm intrigued to know why you thought it may not be allowed?
Daz

 

[Amp David]

Sure you have to come down the walls on the ground floor.

 

[Resu]

Sure you have to come down the walls on the ground floor.

Why?

 

[telectrix]

Sure you have to come down the walls on the ground floor.

??? whynot up from below, as the per upstairs sockets

 

[Leesparkykent]

Its standard practise to wire the ground floor sockets from below if there is access...Less cable, less chasing,less making good and most importantly less work.

 

[Amp David]

Well upstairs people would expect the wiring to come up to the sockets and downstairs drop down to the sockets.

Might just be a glossop rule of thumb

 

[Rpa07]

More chasing but less floorboards up . . . Maybe same length of cable run though but you just wouldn't then keep going back up and then down it would be adding 4 metres to each socket and 4 in a room and the inbetween drop runs, up goes your impedance!

 

[Rpa07]

Unless you had a concrete floor then no choice!

 

[Pete999]

the house i am due to rewire has floorboards on the ground floor, can i rewire the sockets from underneath the same as you would the first floor ? are we permitted to drill out as normal ? tia

Is there not a space underneath the timber joists? you wouldn't need to drill any joists.

 

[growler]

Dunno yet

 

[Pete999]

Dunno yet

Is it an old property? in my younger days we used to be able to cut a trap in the ground floor timber boards and sen the Apprentice down the trap, and all we did was to push cables down at the positions of the sockets and get him to run the cables around the downstairs ring, mind you in todays Nanny state you might get in trouble for exploiting the young.

 

[ChrisElectrical88]

Is it an old property? in my younger days we used to be able to cut a trap in the ground floor timber boards and sen the Apprentice down the trap, and all we did was to push cables down at the positions of the sockets and get him to run the cables around the downstairs ring, mind you in todays Nanny state you might get in trouble for exploiting the young.

Under a different floor or 2 every week when I was a first and second year.. that was 13 years ago :-0. We sent a lad under a floor a couple of years ago and got in trouble with a director cause his mum complained he got too dirty.

 

[Pete999]

Under a different floor or 2 every week when I was a first and second year.. that was 13 years ago :-0. We sent a lad under a floor a couple of years ago and got in trouble with a director cause his mum complained he got too dirty.

I put the floor back down on one App he was a little s---, soon cured his little game he used to bully the smaller Lad working with us, he didn't do it any more, mind you got my bottom smacked by a director, he had a smile on his face whilst giving me a rollicking, so it wasn't too bad.

 

[Dave OCD]

Did this recently but I did my share of going under the floor too, every room had a wall underneath though so that made it harder work.

 

[Pete999]

Did this recently but I did my share of going under the floor too, every room had a wall underneath though so that made it harder work.

Yes those little wall were a right so and so at times

 

[ChrisElectrical88]

I put the floor back down on one App he was a little s---, soon cured his little game he used to bully the smaller Lad working with us, he didn't do it any more, mind you got my bottom smacked by a director, he had a smile on his face whilst giving me a rollicking, so it wasn't too bad.

Got locked under a fair few floors myself, a couple of times they would set the hosepipe dripping where the hatch was, quicker I was, less water I had to crawl through to get out (in uninhabited houses obviously haha). All prt of the cycle I think.