Hi all sparkies
I've just had a professional (NICEIC etc) electrician install a new CU at my house (that I'm away from at the moment and renting out so can't get to see what he's done easily). When the tenants move out I'd like to get the lighting circuits rewired but I can't have it done while they're in residence.
It's a split load CU with RCD. It replaced an old style black fuse box plus a separate lighting installation (a separate black unit). Except he has left the old lighting installation in place. He says it is too delicate too touch - this may be true. But I keep asking the question - which he refuses to answer - 'does the power go through the CU and then onto the old lighting installation, or does the power bypass the CU and go direct to the old lighting circuit i.e. the lighting circuit is not protected by the CU'. And I am getting very nervous that he WILL NOT answer this question (asked 4 times in writing now).
So I ask the resident sparkies: even if we take it as true that the old lighting installation is delicate and should not be moved, surely it can still be wired inline with a new CU ? Surely it is completely missing the point for the lighting circuit to bypass a new CU ? Please help...
I'm asking this because there a lot of things this 'professional' has done which mean I have approaching zero confidence in him or his work, and I would appreciate a couple of second opinions on this...
Thanks.
I've just had a professional (NICEIC etc) electrician install a new CU at my house (that I'm away from at the moment and renting out so can't get to see what he's done easily). When the tenants move out I'd like to get the lighting circuits rewired but I can't have it done while they're in residence.
It's a split load CU with RCD. It replaced an old style black fuse box plus a separate lighting installation (a separate black unit). Except he has left the old lighting installation in place. He says it is too delicate too touch - this may be true. But I keep asking the question - which he refuses to answer - 'does the power go through the CU and then onto the old lighting installation, or does the power bypass the CU and go direct to the old lighting circuit i.e. the lighting circuit is not protected by the CU'. And I am getting very nervous that he WILL NOT answer this question (asked 4 times in writing now).
So I ask the resident sparkies: even if we take it as true that the old lighting installation is delicate and should not be moved, surely it can still be wired inline with a new CU ? Surely it is completely missing the point for the lighting circuit to bypass a new CU ? Please help...
I'm asking this because there a lot of things this 'professional' has done which mean I have approaching zero confidence in him or his work, and I would appreciate a couple of second opinions on this...
Thanks.