Advice for re-wire

[Dazza1976]

Hi all,
Been to look at a possible full re-wire job which I will do with my friend, The majority of it should be fine, but the one big problem will be doing the downstairs ring, as their entire downstairs floor area is covered in a solid wood parquet flooring, which they do not want disturbed.
I just wondered how any of you have got round this in the past ? I thought about chasing out from above down to each socket, but that will involve a hell of alot of work and dust, and the property will be occupied while we are working. my other thought is to chase round the walls horizontally between each socket, but im worried that might weaken the strength of the walls too much ?

Any help or advice will be appreciated.

 

[nickblake]

the way i would treat it would as as you do with a concrete floor so its chase down from above dust sheet the floor and tape em down if you can use a wall chaser and vac reduces the dust by loads , what i do with wooden floors is to cover it with a carpet underlay then dust sheet over the top this reduces the risk of damage by the rubble you get when chasing hope thats of help

 

[Newsome3]

get some carpet protector and chase down

sell it at cef not too cheap but well worth price

tis is best way to do this

 

[SirKit Breaker]

Agree, definite cover up, you dont want all the joins in the floor filling in with crap.

 

[Newsome3]

Nowt worse than brick crap in between cracks in boards. Good old henry Hoover struggles like mad!!

 

[nickblake]

Nowt worse than brick crap in between cracks in boards. Good old henry Hoover struggles like mad!!

i got a henry commercial with reusable bags brilliant piece of kit

 

[Coffeemad]

Get some of those big flexible buckets, the type that people fill with beer and ice at a barbie. stick it under the chase and let the rubble drop in. Obviousley still cover up as above, but it save loads of time clearing up, and their really useful for carrying cable etc in the van and gear into a job.