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

 

[partypest]

I work on my own and allow at least 10 days for a basic rewire of an emptied house, just for my two pennies.

I've been off the forum for a while, been busy in show land, so I've popped my head in the door to find handbags at dawn.

You can tell it's the quiet period.

 

[R G]

I work on my own and allow at least 10 days for a basic rewire of an emptied house, just for my two pennies.

I've been off the forum for a while, been busy in show land, so I've popped my head in the door to find handbags at dawn.

You can tell it's the quiet period.

Its hunting season dont you know !!

 

[Gavin A]

Thanks mate, someone finally makes sense of this.

no worries, I used to work in events, and we'd rig up entire arena stages, flown lighting rigs, sound rigs, projection screens etc. from the trucks in about 4-5 hours, then derig them and load them into the trucks in 3 hours starting pretty much the second the show finished.

nuts how fast we'd be able to do that, but then there was usually 10 tour crew and 20-30 local crew on the job working absolutely flat out until the job was done.

I reckon most people would expect it'd take 2-3 days to get something like that rigged up and at least a day to derig and load up, but those tours do different arenas each night. Taught me a fair bit about efficiency, and what can be possible with a well oiled team with all the right kit for the job, which it sounds like you've got going on.

 

[Geordie Spark]

My thread has been trashed, It seems I have enemies here

It was nothing to do with me Mark. :biggrin5:

 

[partypest]

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.

 

[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.