Hello,
I have a basement flat which currently has surface mounted sockets.
I want to chase all of these in whilst I am refurbing it, and when my electrician came round he mentioned that I would need to remove the ceiling to put all of the cables in, and then chase down the walls to where I want the sockets.
I can remove the ceiling myself but it's a messy job - and putting a new plaster board ceiling up & skimming will be expensive, so i'm looking at other options first.
Is there any reason why I can't chase horizontally into the walls to avoid going in the ceiling?
There would be quite a few cables running in the channels out of the DB, is there a max width that you can chase before you risk the structure of the wall?
Thanks in advance
I have a basement flat which currently has surface mounted sockets.
I want to chase all of these in whilst I am refurbing it, and when my electrician came round he mentioned that I would need to remove the ceiling to put all of the cables in, and then chase down the walls to where I want the sockets.
I can remove the ceiling myself but it's a messy job - and putting a new plaster board ceiling up & skimming will be expensive, so i'm looking at other options first.
Is there any reason why I can't chase horizontally into the walls to avoid going in the ceiling?
There would be quite a few cables running in the channels out of the DB, is there a max width that you can chase before you risk the structure of the wall?
Thanks in advance