Hi all, just a question about the 'legality' of a suggestion someone put to me in an attempt to save me money:
I have a 3 bedroom HMO above a shop, which needs to be rewired, as there is currently only one socket in each room, and it has not been rewired in many years.
A friend suggested that I could cut the cost and disruption of a full rewire by running the new cabling in conduit along the walls above the skirting boards to surface mounted sockets, leaving the existing cable in the wall, but disconnected from the consumer unit (I would fill in the sockets). The suggestion is that I could lay the conduit, fit the back boxes and run the cable, leaving the fitting of the sockets and connection to the consumer unit to an electrician, and the existing wiring would remain in place until the new one was live.
I appreciate this would not be a pretty solution, but if it is allowed under the regulations it would cut the hassle and cost dramatically.
I have a 3 bedroom HMO above a shop, which needs to be rewired, as there is currently only one socket in each room, and it has not been rewired in many years.
A friend suggested that I could cut the cost and disruption of a full rewire by running the new cabling in conduit along the walls above the skirting boards to surface mounted sockets, leaving the existing cable in the wall, but disconnected from the consumer unit (I would fill in the sockets). The suggestion is that I could lay the conduit, fit the back boxes and run the cable, leaving the fitting of the sockets and connection to the consumer unit to an electrician, and the existing wiring would remain in place until the new one was live.
I appreciate this would not be a pretty solution, but if it is allowed under the regulations it would cut the hassle and cost dramatically.