Ground floor flat rewire

[gazzamikes]

Evening all,

have been asked to quote for basic rewire in a small 2 bed ground floor flat. the ceilings are concrete as they would be. the flat is still wired in mineral cable with the copper outer sheath on a 3036 board. the customer was asking for a number of additional sockets etc, i suggested a rewire.

2 questions, would you guys recommend a rewire? and how do you about getting cables to lighting points, Surface & trunking?

any advice would be greatly appreciated!

 

[topquark]

Some good advice on ways to continue.

Apologies, didn't mean to hijack this thread

 

[ipf]

MICC is still top notch and used regularly. My most common usage in the last few years has been local authority work such as outdoor community lighting ( at least 'till the gov. funds ran out).

 

[Engineer54]

MICC is still top notch and used regularly. My most common usage in the last few years has been local authority work such as outdoor community lighting ( at least 'till the gov. funds ran out).

Yep, and it will probably out last those present community lighting fittings you installed and the future replacements too!! ...lol!!

 

[Knobhead]

50 years on. The buildings falling apart but the Pyro’s still holding it together :wheelchair:

 

[malcolmsanford]

It's strange with the colleges omitting MICC work, that in the new BGB the IET actually included it in Reg 560.8.1 MICC as one of the recognized cables for safety services wiring systems,

Will there be anyone able to install it in 10 yrs time?

 

[gazzamikes]

AM2 refresher course at SETA and that still covers:

[U]COURSE CONTENT[/U]
Areas of practice include:
[LIST]
[*] MICC glanding
[*]Conduit forming
[*]SWA/PVC/SWA glanding
[*]DOL motor circuitry
[*]Master switching of lighting circuits
[*]FP cabling
[*]Wiring in conduit and trunking
[*]Inspection and testing to BS7671
[*]Fault finding
[*]Plus all points relevant to the test
[/LIST]

[/QUOTE]

i did the two day refresher two and still we didnt cover it, we covered fp200 and we were told that it has been omitted completely.

 

[gazzamikes]

i beleive you may have been looking at the previous am2, for some reason the information for this one is readily avaialble whereas the new one doesnt seem to leave a paper trail

 

[topquark]

i beleive you may have been looking at the previous am2, for some reason the information for this one is readily avaialble whereas the new one doesnt seem to leave a paper trail

You may well be correct, it's the refresher course they are currently offering, maybe the website is out of date with respect to the course contents

 

[ipf]

50 years on. The buildings falling apart but the Pyro’s still holding it together :wheelchair:

You see it after fires. the only thing left intact is pyro. Imagine f.p. in such a situation. I've seen that stuff warped by the sun, in our climate.

 

[Dcf]

You will probs find that the micc cable is imperial sizes if the board is 3036.not many sparks have any pots n seals for that stuff I can tell you.what about doing the additional sockets in fp200.as for the consumer unit terminate into a metal ko box if the cables are short and extend to new board.use seratted washers as well.

 

[Knobhead]

If it is imperial the locknuts need saving as well

 

[telectrix]

we should have saved imperial years ago. i'm fed up of having to look at my tape measure , converting meaningless mm to inches.LOL.

 

[Des 56]

Those milli metre things come in handy on a tape measure occasionally

eg A piece of pipe measuring 6 foot and 7 of those mm

They are ok for the little bits now and again

 

[telectrix]

with imperial you can have accurate measurements, say, 4 and 7 64ths. that converts to 105 and a bit millimeters .......rubbish

 

[Superspark23]

Ive done loads of Flat rewires, working for the Council. The best stuff to use is CT2 coving trunking by MK, In a normal flat situation you should cove the kitchen, lounge, and halls, and 1 bedroom as you can pick the the lights and sockets up through drilling back to back. Then use YT2 going out to the lights. If the customer doesnt want this shown, maybe you could sujest that they lower the ceilings by a couple of cm.