Moving house shortly and the new house needs some rewiring doing.
In June we will be having an extension built, the current consumer unit is in a kitchen cupboard on the interior side of an external wall, that external wall contains the meter cupboard on the outside as you'd expect. Once the extension is built that external wall will be the internal wall of my new double garage, the consumer unit will be getting moved to be above the meter cupboard, so on the opposite side of the wall its currently mounted on.
As soon as we move I'm planning on getting the supplier or dno out to fit an isolater to the meter so i can isolate the power, cutting out the chases for all the current wiring, replacing the wiring with new all the way back to the consumer unit for each circuit, leaving enough spare cable on each circuit looped up conveniently near the consumer unit so that when an electrician fits the new consumer unit in it's new location and wires in the new circuits for the extension he will be able to unfurl the service loops on the current circuits so they nicely reach the new consumer unit, the electrician will then test the new install as usual and I'll receive a shiny completion test certificate for the whole property?
The current wiring has all sockets on a single ring main protected by rcd, this will be wired exactly the same as is using 2.5mm t+e and metal capping over all cables in chases, the only change to this will be if I find any nasties while doing the work which will be fixed accordingly.
The lighting is on 2 separate radials, these will be slightly different in that I will be doing them with 1.5mm t+e and a single to each switch so there will be a spare wire to it that can be used for a neutral in the future if required such as smart switches.
I'm confident that me changing or replacing the wiring in the consumer unit is notifiable work, but i think replacing the rest of the wiring for new would class as modifying a circuit which is acceptable diy?
All work will be getting loop tested and looked over by an electrician at work but he's not part p registered so can't sign any of it off but I'm happy to go with him saying it's safe until I get an electrician in for the new consumer unit and extension part as I know I have to use an electrician for that bit to get it signed off for the extension.
And the reason for all this is understandably the wife doesn't want to spend 3 months with chases cut everywhere and the mess or having to move all the furniture and stuff again after moving in to do it all in June so I want to get it done in the first week get all the chases made good and the main part of the house renovated before we start on the extension parts in June.
Chris
In June we will be having an extension built, the current consumer unit is in a kitchen cupboard on the interior side of an external wall, that external wall contains the meter cupboard on the outside as you'd expect. Once the extension is built that external wall will be the internal wall of my new double garage, the consumer unit will be getting moved to be above the meter cupboard, so on the opposite side of the wall its currently mounted on.
As soon as we move I'm planning on getting the supplier or dno out to fit an isolater to the meter so i can isolate the power, cutting out the chases for all the current wiring, replacing the wiring with new all the way back to the consumer unit for each circuit, leaving enough spare cable on each circuit looped up conveniently near the consumer unit so that when an electrician fits the new consumer unit in it's new location and wires in the new circuits for the extension he will be able to unfurl the service loops on the current circuits so they nicely reach the new consumer unit, the electrician will then test the new install as usual and I'll receive a shiny completion test certificate for the whole property?
The current wiring has all sockets on a single ring main protected by rcd, this will be wired exactly the same as is using 2.5mm t+e and metal capping over all cables in chases, the only change to this will be if I find any nasties while doing the work which will be fixed accordingly.
The lighting is on 2 separate radials, these will be slightly different in that I will be doing them with 1.5mm t+e and a single to each switch so there will be a spare wire to it that can be used for a neutral in the future if required such as smart switches.
I'm confident that me changing or replacing the wiring in the consumer unit is notifiable work, but i think replacing the rest of the wiring for new would class as modifying a circuit which is acceptable diy?
All work will be getting loop tested and looked over by an electrician at work but he's not part p registered so can't sign any of it off but I'm happy to go with him saying it's safe until I get an electrician in for the new consumer unit and extension part as I know I have to use an electrician for that bit to get it signed off for the extension.
And the reason for all this is understandably the wife doesn't want to spend 3 months with chases cut everywhere and the mess or having to move all the furniture and stuff again after moving in to do it all in June so I want to get it done in the first week get all the chases made good and the main part of the house renovated before we start on the extension parts in June.
Chris