How long does it take you to do a Domestic rewire?

[MDJ]

For arguments sake lets assume it is a 3 bed semi with normal pendant lights and normal socket numbers and the house is lived in by a family of 4 people

 

[Guest569]

I was speaking to a spark at my local gun club the other day, works for an outfit that rewires houses and flats for the council. They have ONE day. Usually 6 blokes on it and they're well rehearsed in ripping out and chucking the new stuff in. He reckons the job's done right too. Apparent there's a plumbing team goes in afterwards, they get a day too. All in all, a three bed house gets a complete refurb in 5 days with penalty clauses for anyone who doesn't get their bit done in time. So there you have it, a well practised and large enough crew can get things done tres rapide.

Yes, When I did the council work for each individual house it was ...

mon - rip out
tues - rewire
wed - kitchen AND bathroom
Thurs - tiling
Friday - testing/finish.

The company was doing 35 REWIRES A DAY at one point !! then when we rewired on the tuesday, there was a kitchen fitted on the wed and so on and so on. Kitchen teams doing 5 kitchens per week , guys tiling 5 kitchens and bathrooms per week etc.

 

[iamelectric]

yeah i lived in a council flat and thats the routine they done and al tell u now ,it wasnt done to a good standard , within a few days the kitchen cupboard fell on top of me while i was makin the missus a cuppa and the thermostat blew up a few days after that , i opened it up to c what happened , the screw into the back box was touchin the live contact so they put a bit of insulating tape over it , it burnt thru and popped

 

[Guest569]

yeah i lived in a council flat and thats the routine they done and al tell u now ,it wasnt done to a good standard , within a few days the kitchen cupboard fell on top of me while i was makin the missus a cuppa and the thermostat blew up a few days after that , i opened it up to c what happened , the screw into the back box was touchin the live contact so they put a bit of insulating tape over it , it burnt thru and popped

bad...who did rewire chalmers ?

 

[Megavolt]

bad...who did rewire chalmers ?

Come on own up. It was you wasn't it ;-)

 

[partypest]

Things like that should've flagged at initial verification on IR between R1 & R2, and that's why I work on my own and why I would never sign off anyone else's work. It's a common practice, I believe, to put tape over the heads of backbox screws. I use countersink pozi's myself, which negates the need in my experience, so long as it sits in it's own little dippy in the box.