Floorboard notches

[TopTrumper]

If a partial rewire is getting done, or even a new rewire come to think of it, can you use the existing notches even though they fall well short of the 2 inch guideline?

 

[Gaz the Sparky]

No

 

[RF Lighting]

I beleive you can just about get away with it if you use these, but they really provide very little protection to the cable, and it really shoud only be as a last resort.

 

[Paul Barker]

No leave the notches for me and Chris to put our pipes in please?

 

[RF Lighting]

And don't drill your holes last job of the day, ready for wiring the following day. You'll almost certainly find a poly pipe sat in there in the morning

 

[Paul Barker]

Actually, funnily enough, in the days when you used notches too, my boss notched his joists and when he got back next day they had tea 'n ea in. So he rippoed it out and ran his pipes, sparks came along and they had an actual fight. That sparks never did that to him again though.

Be fair, it's platerers you've got to watch out for if we first fix pipes just through the wall, they pull them out and plaster it all up neat. I've heard of them cutting sparkies first fixing aswell.

And don't talk to me about joiners. We put out drops in just the right place for when we can hang the rad after the dry lining is done. For some reason they come along and move our holes, so then our pipes don't go straight up and look ****ed, so we have to **** up thier floor to get out pipes back straight again.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Be fair, it's platerers you've got to watch out for

A friend of mine built a kitchen extension once, and came home from work on the day the plasterers had been.

He went to look at the job. Something wasn't right. Couldn't put his finger on it.

Ah yes - where are all the electrical boxes? All plastered over, that's where...

 

[plugwash]

seems plastering them over is quite normal, i think its easier to get a good finish by skimming the lot and then breaking out the thin layer thats over whatever the box is stuffed with than it is by trying to work arround the boxes.

 

[Taylortwocities]

That has happened to me several times. I now take a digital camera and snap all my first fix work. Much easier to 'find' the hidden boxes that way.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Ah well - shows how much I know about plastering. In fact, as a plasterer, I make a bl**dy good neurosurgeon.

 

[dingbat]

As good a reason as any for dead tests - recently I had no end-to-end continuity on a ring final circuit because one of my sockets had been buried so completely that I had to resort to measuring to locate it! (It had been first-fixed several weeks earlier).

It seems to be the job of each trade to make life as difficult as possible for all other trades.