I've just been to inspect a rental property and found an ingenius solution to the age-old problem of non-standard cable routes in plastered walls. You simply patch up your chasings extremely badly. So badly in fact, that even anaglypta wallpaper can't hide them from view. It's like being able to x-ray every wall!!!
The property has been extensivley 'rewired'. Added-to willy-nilly, is what they meant. My favourite feature was the 'his and hers' reading lights in the bedroom. The cable origin was an old single socket outlet from where the cable ran vertically up the wall about five feet high, where it made a right-angle bend, ran along horizontally for a couple of feet then dropped down vertically to a bedside switch. From the switch it ran diagonally up to a light fitting and also horizontally to a second switch, from where a diagonal run went to the second light fitting. A true work of art.
The property has been extensivley 'rewired'. Added-to willy-nilly, is what they meant. My favourite feature was the 'his and hers' reading lights in the bedroom. The cable origin was an old single socket outlet from where the cable ran vertically up the wall about five feet high, where it made a right-angle bend, ran along horizontally for a couple of feet then dropped down vertically to a bedside switch. From the switch it ran diagonally up to a light fitting and also horizontally to a second switch, from where a diagonal run went to the second light fitting. A true work of art.
