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Yeah ok so depending if your wiring to the switch with neutral at the switch or wiring to the pendants and using the blue wire as a switched live etc please tell me the complicity pete :-D

Yeah i mean my first route was gonna be just do it myself get a eicr and that be that i would then know it was safe cause i know how its been physically installed and the test would show there was nothing wired wrong and such like it was just when i read more into when a install cert can be...

Thanks again for the replies yeah so its kind of one of them old style british technicalities where its not illegal to do your own diy rewire but its not really the done thing and your only really using a route not really intended for DIY unless your a diy spark as a couple of the local...

Thanks again for the replies yeah so its kind of one of them old style british technicalities where its not illegal to do your own diy rewire but its not really the done thing and your only really using a route not really intended for DIY unless your a diy spark as a couple of the local...

Thats fair enough maybe i dont know every single correct term in the electricians lingo for example maybe a electrician wouldnt say that he would do his lights in a daisy chain method i dont know... but regardless of the terminology the basic fact leads to the same the brown live goes in the L...

The route im hopeing its going to go is i contact building control and tell/show them my plans they agree to come and inspect the house and see the plans 300/400 quid they then tell me to proceed i go ahead and first fix the full house at this point they come and inspect again i then second...

i suppose thats the issue talking on these forums no one knows each other from adam so we dont now what anyones DIY capabilities are , you can have a have a go saturday morning steven who has literally no basic clue what a rcbo even is and someone who has a fair bit of basic knowledge but like...

haha dont go down the line of the forum standard murdo (get a professional in) these forums are there for advice so why should multiple posts asking for help and advice matter but to cover your point ive spoken to some local sparks who are not so keen unless they are doing the full job them...

Ow ok so when folk talk about a poor designed system they mean in the sense of practicability more then safety using your example there doing a ring circuit for """1 socket in the bathroom"" there no safety issue doing this just a waste of cable i remember when i spoke to one of my...

yeah i agree... but you get some that say its not as simple as running cable A-B but it pritty much is aslong as common sense is used aswell as the correct rated rcbo for the cable its protecting and aswell as the correct size cable for the load in domestic house 99 percent time would 2.5mm /...

Small 2 bed cottage yeah so thats what i mean if not 3200 then even 4k/5k so diy building control route even if it was 2k with inspections its still gonna be a 2k saving

Ok so if thats the process then i just need to find the exacts costings from building control even if building control charge the said 1000k and the materials 600 quid thats still probably half the price of what a trade would charge to do the job i can see something on my local council website...

Thanks again for the replies , i got the energy supplier to install a isolator couple months ago so i wont be pulling any mains fuse but yeah regarding smoke alarms i feel there a personal choice battery alarms did good enough for years and i dont even have any in my current home but yeah...

Here is prime example made by the folk who dont like DIY rewire... i mean come on there is being competent and being totally stupid surly any fool would isolate the mains before ripping out cables..

Another question to ask where would you stand if you ran all the new cables your self fitted all new sockets and everything and wired it into the old board then got a spark in to changed the board to a new board would it all be then certified and signed off all good ?

Yeah i wont be putting in any hard wired smoke alarms or any out door sockets or lights also good point about the bathroom and kitchen extractor but i wouldn't feel the need for these to be on there own dedicated circuit these both could be ran on spur units from sockets or a spur break in the...

Yeah i get what your saying i think it would be worth while splitting the bedrooms from the living room Having Kitchen Bedroom 1/2 Living room and dining With the boiler i could do that i suppose but it would mean running a full circuit over to the boiler which is quite away from the board...

I presume you have some sort of central heating system where you have zones and controls in each room if its complex as a standard central heating system wouldnt be complex at all , you genrally have a switch fused spur powering the boiler then a thermostat control feed from the boiler to either...

Sorry i missed to say the 2 bedrooms would be on the same ring as the living room The boiler would be on a fused spur from the ring from one of the kitchen sockets No alarm system or any other electrical thing such as outdoor lights or sockets All how it currently already is One thing i...