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Wet Willy
Joined: 21 Nov 2007
Posts: 25
Location: North Wales
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 Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 9:42 am Post subject: How long before a rewire? |
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This install was circa 1970.
Old Wylex Rewirable fuse CU. Not opened up to view.
16mm tails.
No bonding to gas pipe below.
No rcd on sockets.
Tarnished and dated sockets/switches.
Taped joints in roof space.
Add-ons to add-ons.
J/Bs resembling an octopus.
T&E strung across to garage - no catenary.
Old pushbutton square-cornered electric shower though rcd protected.
Original light fittings.
Blah...
Blah Blah.
How often would you guys recommend a rewire... 25years?
Thanks
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vince knight
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| Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 8:56 pm Post subject: |
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Well overdue a rewire, should be every 25yrs.
The wallpaper is about 15 yrs over due as well 
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b
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Location: michigan
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| Awww... I liked the wall paper! |
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vince knight
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sparkygerbo
Joined: 31 Jan 2008
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Location: Aotearoa
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| Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 6:57 am Post subject: Ask yourself! |
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From what you listed in the post .......you don't need to be a rocket man to work out things are dangerous!
Taped joints aren't good. They come apart and are not Mechanicly sound.
Get an Electrician to wire your house again, properly , the thing you have listed are the types of things that end up killing people!
Sorry to be harsh, but ive seen too much dangerous and illegal work to sink a ship and it needs to stop , the law in NZ does alllow people to do there own work ( Certain work only ) but if YOU wire something that ends up with someone dead , you will end up in prision.
My best advice. Get a quallifed well knowen sparky to examine the work and he/she will advise on the best plan of attack.
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thescruff
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Location: Bath
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We live in a nanny state as well Craig.
The point about killing yourself is valid, provided you only doitonce |
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Wet Willy
Joined: 21 Nov 2007
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Location: North Wales
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Hey scruff,
in the first pic... is that a lead pipe looping over to the gas meter?
Regards
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Wet Willy
Joined: 21 Nov 2007
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Location: North Wales
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| Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 12:09 am Post subject: Re: Ask yourself! |
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| sparkygerbo wrote: | | From what you listed in the post .......you don't need to be a rocket man to work out things are dangerous! |
Good job... cos I'm not one of those! And never been an avid fan of Elton John.
Just to clarify; this is not MY house... this is a house I'm looking to purchase yet the vendors say the house needs very little work. This is just one of a handful of jobs needed.
There is a back boiler in the living room along with a gas fire. There is a vent on the outside wall but when a conservatory was fitted the wall became an inside wall, so to speak, no new vent provided.
One-pipe heating system.
The kitchen-you-can-move-into needs ripping out. There's damp at the back of the cupboards from dripping pipes to the washing machine.
... to name but a few. 
My line of work incorporates plenty of electrical work but I'm not a house-basher by trade although I do have C&G certs for BS7671(2001) and Insp/Test/Cert. House-bashing was in the start of my apprenticeship quite a while ago but even factory installs are given to contractors to allow us more time to do paperwork at my current blue-chip employer. Give me a laptop and a machine to control any day.
Done numerous part-wires prior to 2001. What the Part P Police don't know won't hurt 
Hey... if someone's planning to live in a house for the next 50 years... want to do their own wiring and don't plan to move... will they probably outlive all this Part P b------s? 
One of my old bosses... an old pipe-fitter... one questioned why he could work on high pressure >1000psi hydraulic systems, 10 bar'g steam systems, high volume pneumatic systems, ammonia fridge systems etc... but wasn't allowed to work on a 5psi gas system? (Andrews / Lochinvar boilers) |
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thescruff
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| Wet Willy wrote: | Hey scruff,
in the first pic... is that a lead pipe looping over to the gas meter?
Regards
WW |
Yep it sure is  |
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