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Hi,
We've just has our recently purchased house rewired due to issues regarding previous owners' bodge work and undisclosed mice infestation.
We hired a qualified electrician who was recommended by the window fitter that's going to be doing for some work for us.
All of the walls are just plasterboard.
On a rewire, is it normal to have the electrician to cut 4" square chunks out of the plasterboard to put the wires in?
The old sockets were about 4" above the skirting but he's put all the new sockets 450mm from the floor, leaving just holes where the old sockets were.
The light switches have all be dropped to 1200mm from the floor, leaving the holes of the old switches.
When I asked about them, he said it was new regulations that required them to be that high. Is that correct?
The ceilings were artexed with a round pattern for the light fitting but he's discarded those and drilled though the ceiling in the centre of the room to put a new light fitting, leaving the hole and pattern where the old one used to be. The old fittings weren't centre but they worked with the layout of the rooms. When I asked why he'd done it, he said it was regulations that required it to be centre of the room.
He's also cut chunks out of the Coving and drilled 1" holes in the ceiling too for some reason, even though he had access to under the floorboards and in the loft.
I'm just querying if the socket/switch heights and ceiling rose location regulations he's stated are correct.
Thanks
Carl
We've just has our recently purchased house rewired due to issues regarding previous owners' bodge work and undisclosed mice infestation.
We hired a qualified electrician who was recommended by the window fitter that's going to be doing for some work for us.
All of the walls are just plasterboard.
On a rewire, is it normal to have the electrician to cut 4" square chunks out of the plasterboard to put the wires in?
The old sockets were about 4" above the skirting but he's put all the new sockets 450mm from the floor, leaving just holes where the old sockets were.
The light switches have all be dropped to 1200mm from the floor, leaving the holes of the old switches.
When I asked about them, he said it was new regulations that required them to be that high. Is that correct?
The ceilings were artexed with a round pattern for the light fitting but he's discarded those and drilled though the ceiling in the centre of the room to put a new light fitting, leaving the hole and pattern where the old one used to be. The old fittings weren't centre but they worked with the layout of the rooms. When I asked why he'd done it, he said it was regulations that required it to be centre of the room.
He's also cut chunks out of the Coving and drilled 1" holes in the ceiling too for some reason, even though he had access to under the floorboards and in the loft.
I'm just querying if the socket/switch heights and ceiling rose location regulations he's stated are correct.
Thanks
Carl