Existing cable routes through joists etc

[rsmck]

There are many buildings in the UK, that are hundreds of years old, built without a fraction of today's building Reg's. ...How many with ALL of today's building Reg's will be around in a hundred years time, ....not very many at all is my guess!!!

Case in point - the changes on equipotential bonding from 16th to 17th

But yes, my first flat was in a building over 200 years old. Nothing wrong with it to this day and built without todays modern mass-produced components (every nail a different shape, every door made by hand and a slightly different size) - the plasterwork is a dying art now, and yet even the most basic rooms in that building had huge ornate cornices - I imagine the builders were proud of what they produced back then.

I can't imagine many of the buildings springing up left right and centre today will still be standing in 200 years time... yet somehow I believe, and hope, that my first flat might