Sorry for the long post
As some will remember had a new CU fitted late last year and intend consolidating the other old CUs into it this year. All electrical work has and will be done by NICEIC electrician, so no Part P worries for anyone.
We have the kitchen ring final and another ring final covering part of the ground floor, but the third ring covering the rest of the ground floor is still on the old CU.
This 3rd ring is VIR
stop shaking your heads and sucking your teeth at the back it's this I want to replace.
Now the problem is that we have a mixture of concrete floors, carpeted floorboards and carpetted parquet floor on floor boards. End result access misery. Electrician doesnt want to spend ages curing the access problems so is suggesting either losing the difficult sockets or trunking. The latter is NEVER going to happen in our living room and the former is not attractive
However, electrician is happy for me to spend my time running cables for him to connect up and test later
For most of the sockets I have reasonable access, but to three I have access only via cable route in wall and under the floorboards on the other side of the living room from adjacent room. I am looking for any ideas on how to get the new T+E to the sockets.
My initial thought is to join the end of new cable to VIR where accessable in adjacent room, then pull VIR out of socket hopefully dragging new cable through. However this is not ideal or even possible with all sockets. Any ideas guys?
I want to do this properly , but I am tempted to leave well alone as the VIR passed an insulation check so is in reasonable condition. Obviously that would mean leaving teh old CU as well, but.....
As some will remember had a new CU fitted late last year and intend consolidating the other old CUs into it this year. All electrical work has and will be done by NICEIC electrician, so no Part P worries for anyone.
We have the kitchen ring final and another ring final covering part of the ground floor, but the third ring covering the rest of the ground floor is still on the old CU.
This 3rd ring is VIR
stop shaking your heads and sucking your teeth at the back it's this I want to replace.Now the problem is that we have a mixture of concrete floors, carpeted floorboards and carpetted parquet floor on floor boards. End result access misery. Electrician doesnt want to spend ages curing the access problems so is suggesting either losing the difficult sockets or trunking. The latter is NEVER going to happen in our living room and the former is not attractive
However, electrician is happy for me to spend my time running cables for him to connect up and test later
For most of the sockets I have reasonable access, but to three I have access only via cable route in wall and under the floorboards on the other side of the living room from adjacent room. I am looking for any ideas on how to get the new T+E to the sockets.
My initial thought is to join the end of new cable to VIR where accessable in adjacent room, then pull VIR out of socket hopefully dragging new cable through. However this is not ideal or even possible with all sockets. Any ideas guys?
I want to do this properly , but I am tempted to leave well alone as the VIR passed an insulation check so is in reasonable condition. Obviously that would mean leaving teh old CU as well, but.....
