ban-all-sheds said:
Fair enough.
When do you expect battle to commence?
Not sure yet. It's taking ages to do the rewire cos I keep ending up doing some plumbing instead, and obviously I work full time so it's really only weekends.
I've done all the lighting except the bathroom (well, I did do the bathroom but i'm about to put SELV spots in), the radial for immersion heater, radial for ch controls+boiler, cooker (although this is in red and black so i'm going to redo it in brown/blue), and i've changed the CU. Also bonded everything - previously had none of that.
All socket holes are cut, need to chase the walls appropriately and then cable them up. And I need to run a supply to the garage and do the wiring in there. The current garage wiring beggars belief.
I guess i'll be lucky to do this all before xmas with other commitments, but we'll see.
I changed the CU, even though it's a bit naughty to hook crappy old wiring to it. I did it because after I started delving under floorboards I realised how scary the socket wiring was. The CU has (old - 2.5mm^2/1.0mm^2 T+E) PVC, which runs to JB's under the floor (all within a metre of the old fuse box) where it joins on mostly to rubber, with separate, non insulated earth cores which are just twisted together. More recently I discovered that the dining room's one socket (on it's own radial) was supplied in the regular PVC to rubber, but then the rubber joined onto original lead sheathed cable. That scared me so I disconnected it immediately and we now have no power in the dining room. Anyway, the net result is that the socket circuits are dangerous, but the CU being of the split load variety means now my sockets are all rcd protected, which is a little bit safer. I confirmed that all earths are connected. I shudder to think what the insulation resistance is like.
Given the age and condition of the wiring i'm suprised i've not had any trips of the RCD. Certainly I'll be very happy when everything is finished.
