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JulianC
Evening all.
Next door neighbours' son has just bought a house and I've just been down for a look at the electrics for him. The house is a 1950's terrace with concrete floors both upstairs and down! Chap wanted, amongst other things, a lot of surface mount switches and sockets sinking into the walls. I whipped a light switch box off for a look to find it covering a steel-lined recess in the wall. Upon further investigation it looks like a lot of cables exiting the CU (old steel Wylex type with plug in MCBs) are singles and disappear off into steel conduits running down into the ground floor and up to the upstairs. I therefore suspect the steel lined recess behind the light switch was fixed to the end of a run of conduit.
Has anyone any experience of similar installations? (Concrete floors and singles run in buried conduits). The house only has a single socket ring and I suspect (3 wires in the breaker) that there is a downstairs ring with a spur to upstairs (which only has 2 original sockets by the look of things). I will be suggesting a rewire with 2/3 proper socket rings but am concerned how easy it will be to get T/E to each point. Presumably the conduit runs will be jointed under the floors? What are people's thoughts on using singles in a domestic situation? (It's not something I've come across before)
Thanks and soz for the long post!
Next door neighbours' son has just bought a house and I've just been down for a look at the electrics for him. The house is a 1950's terrace with concrete floors both upstairs and down! Chap wanted, amongst other things, a lot of surface mount switches and sockets sinking into the walls. I whipped a light switch box off for a look to find it covering a steel-lined recess in the wall. Upon further investigation it looks like a lot of cables exiting the CU (old steel Wylex type with plug in MCBs) are singles and disappear off into steel conduits running down into the ground floor and up to the upstairs. I therefore suspect the steel lined recess behind the light switch was fixed to the end of a run of conduit.
Has anyone any experience of similar installations? (Concrete floors and singles run in buried conduits). The house only has a single socket ring and I suspect (3 wires in the breaker) that there is a downstairs ring with a spur to upstairs (which only has 2 original sockets by the look of things). I will be suggesting a rewire with 2/3 proper socket rings but am concerned how easy it will be to get T/E to each point. Presumably the conduit runs will be jointed under the floors? What are people's thoughts on using singles in a domestic situation? (It's not something I've come across before)
Thanks and soz for the long post!
