House is 3 bed tce, built 1927.
Mother In Law lives there alone, now walking only with a frame. Built 1921.
Wiring has suffered some additions over the decades, but much of the original rubber covered stuff is still in use. Light switches and wall sockets are relatively new.
2 lighting and 2 socket circuits afair. I can check the earth arrangement next time I go, if it matters. (TN-S I think)
So far, there has been no random fuse-blowing, fires or fizzing noises. But the family is having an attack of the "What-if?"s.
M-I-L may well have to move out into a home within, say, a couple of years.
Meantime, she won't agree to anything being done in the house, until it stops working. Central heating only took 2 days to get installed but she resisted that until a few years ago, and hated it.
"Electric's lasted this long, it'll outlive me".
"Can't be doing with it".
"Bugger that"
Questions:
1) is it worth having any tests done? I fear my Megger would vapourize something.
2) short of a rewire, could any work usefully be done? EG adding one overall RCD?
3) IF something happens such that we are forced into a rewire, how long would it typically take a sparks, 2 man team? Surface wiring would be acceptable. They would have to fight their way through lino and layers of newspaper underneath, and a loft full of god-knows-what.
2-3 days?
Mother In Law lives there alone, now walking only with a frame. Built 1921.
Wiring has suffered some additions over the decades, but much of the original rubber covered stuff is still in use. Light switches and wall sockets are relatively new.
2 lighting and 2 socket circuits afair. I can check the earth arrangement next time I go, if it matters. (TN-S I think)
So far, there has been no random fuse-blowing, fires or fizzing noises. But the family is having an attack of the "What-if?"s.
M-I-L may well have to move out into a home within, say, a couple of years.
Meantime, she won't agree to anything being done in the house, until it stops working. Central heating only took 2 days to get installed but she resisted that until a few years ago, and hated it.
"Electric's lasted this long, it'll outlive me".
"Can't be doing with it".
"Bugger that"
Questions:
1) is it worth having any tests done? I fear my Megger would vapourize something.
2) short of a rewire, could any work usefully be done? EG adding one overall RCD?
3) IF something happens such that we are forced into a rewire, how long would it typically take a sparks, 2 man team? Surface wiring would be acceptable. They would have to fight their way through lino and layers of newspaper underneath, and a loft full of god-knows-what.
2-3 days?