How much cable for a 3 bed semi rewire.

[Jon26]

Hi.
I am trying to price up the rewire of a 3 bed semi. Its my first rewire and I was wondering how much cable of different sizes im most likely going to need. Any help would be much appreciated.

 

[drew35]

All this arguing over the length of string! I just measured a piece for you all and it's 372mm!

I'd like to see a rewire achieved with only 100m of 2.5mm!

And singles! Seriously? I wondered who was still using these in domestic jobs.

 

[LeckyBill]

You might be able to use less cable if you loop in and out of each socket so to speak, but 100m doesnt seem enough

 

[electric will]

Instead of having ground floor and first floor ring finals, you can split the house to front and rear finals. Saves both circuits going the whole way round the house, if you know what I mean?

 

[GLENNSPARK]

Instead of having ground floor and first floor ring finals, you can split the house to front and rear finals. Saves both circuits going the whole way round the house, if you know what I mean?

hmm.....i think the long n short of it all william......is you design your subs n finals before installation takes place.....this way you avoid the `afterthoughts`......like.......
`ill just get this neutral from here`........and.......`thats an easy pickup from there`......lolffs...lol.....lol....unbelievable......design ..eh?...lol.....

 

[ferg]

I've never met a client like the one I'm working for just now...
Every time I turn up he's changed his mind.
It still hasn't occurred to me to do the above ^^^^^

 

[electric will]

hmm.....i think the long n short of it all william......is you design your subs n finals before installation takes place.....this way you avoid the `afterthoughts`......like.......
`ill just get this neutral from here`........and.......`thats an easy pickup from there`......lolffs...lol.....lol....unbelievable......design ..eh?...lol.....

I don't really understand what your saying? If I used this design of corse all the positions for sockets etc would be decided
and planned before hand, the when the cu is label, sockets front and sockets rear. What's wrong with that? I take it you don't like the idea?