How long left to rewire house
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How's the weather there?
Warmer than the rest of the UK generally. About 18 Celsius at the moment.
I'll pack my shorts and tee shirts, and see you soon 
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I want a job in Jersey too, sick of the bloody rain here. I ma not qualified to do anything mind, but you can pay me to watch .
Amazingly it took 1 person a full weekend to rewire house back in 1980! Shows how much the regulations have changed. Mind you all he did was replace sockets in like for like positions and moved a couple of switches but most the cut outs were already there.
.Amazingly it took 1 person a full weekend to rewire house back in 1980! Shows how much the regulations have changed. Mind you all he did was replace sockets in like for like positions and moved a couple of switches but most the cut outs were already there.
Fancy some work in Jersey?!
Great place to work. Spent nine months there. Plenty of money too
I don't think the regs have changed all that much in ways that would impact the time to rewire.
While i'm sure occasionally houses get rewired because the wiring is degraded i'd imagine it's pretty rare nowadays. PVC lasts an extremely long time in a typical domestic installation and most of the rubber should be gone by now.
So i'd imagine most rewires happen because people want a higher spec install. In particular recommendations (unlike in some countries we don't have regs about number of socket outlets) for numbers of socket outlets have increased hugely over the years as we all have more electrical appliances.
* According to BASEC 20 years is typical for fully loaded cables but cables in a domestic installation are not typically fully loaded for any significant length of time.
While i'm sure occasionally houses get rewired because the wiring is degraded i'd imagine it's pretty rare nowadays. PVC lasts an extremely long time in a typical domestic installation and most of the rubber should be gone by now.
So i'd imagine most rewires happen because people want a higher spec install. In particular recommendations (unlike in some countries we don't have regs about number of socket outlets) for numbers of socket outlets have increased hugely over the years as we all have more electrical appliances.
* According to BASEC 20 years is typical for fully loaded cables but cables in a domestic installation are not typically fully loaded for any significant length of time.
Do you know what 'fully loaded' means to them - are we talking about BS7671-like CCC figures (and operating temps) or, perhaps, appreciably higher ones?
I also wonder what they say/think happens after this 20 years of fully-loaded service - does the PVC get brittle, or what?
Maybe I'm an optimist, but, from what I've seen of ~50 year cables, it would not surprise me if, in ordinary domestic service, PVC cables would last almost 'for ever' - certainly for longer than a 'typical' human being!
Kind Regards, John
Well they also talk about overloaded cables so I would think that fully loaded would mean running continuously at the maximum acceptable core temperature. That is something that may happen in some commercial/industrial settings but is almost unheard of on domestic.
Fair enough, but, given that some people believe that the BS7671 CCC tables are very conservative, it would be interesting to know what sort of currents corresponded to those 'maximum acceptable core temperatures'.
As you say, no matter what those currents are (even if 'only' BS7671 ones), it must be almost unknown for such currents to flow continuously (if ever) in a domestic setting.
Kind Regards, John
Now if it was still council it would have been done in less than a third of that time
Took you a while to think of that...
But now that you've dug it up, and brushed off the mud and worms...
m0t - how long did it take in the end?
But now that you've dug it up, and brushed off the mud and worms...
m0t - how long did it take in the end?
Took you a while to think of that...
But now that you've dug it up, and brushed off the mud and worms...
! Not sure how it came to the top, I was clicking through recent threads, not searching :S
I wonder if RF can still knock one out by hand in 5 minutes?
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