Requires in a day

[highspark]

I ain't avin it!

Was speaking to someone in wholesales who reckons him another spark and mate have been rewiring and second fixing in an 8 hour day!

Thats either bravado or it's going to be poor poor quality and against the regs

*bloody iPhone put requires instead if rewires

 

[moospark]

I did it once, two storey council terraced, 4 man crew. not pretty. The look on their faces when I got my tape and level out to fit a socket! did not get asked back, happily

 

[adamh]

Ive worked on some where theyve been done in a day, and been embarrassed by the state of it at the end! A perfectly safe job but shocking quality like people say they run cable with almost anything and the board looks like a birdsnest etc lol if your doing coucil work thyre dead easy once you know the runs

 

[Amp David]

I day rewires, you can keep em::

Customer comes home ans says why have you filled the chases with Artex!!!

 

[evermore]

Did you do all the making good & plastering aswell?

 

[ezzzekiel]

Don't forget council rewires are two sockets per room, one pendant, all fitted in minitrunking.

Perfectly doable in a day with 2/3 men.

Dont know who your council is but the ones ive contracted for insist on 4 sockets per room 6 in kitchen not including fcu to washer and fridge, extractors to kitchen bathroom smokes heat detectors and everything chased

 

[adamh]

Did you do all the making good & plastering aswell?

it depends on the customer but we would get a plasterer to do it or on council theyre lads do it

 

[vernam616]

All made good And plastered up, cable runs like they should be, its just doing your work in fast forward

DB very neat not birds nest as you say, im not going to lie i can see your point as ive seen these, but like i say clerk of works is **** hot and everything got to be tip top

It can and still will continue to be done whether you beleve it or not

 

[Dave 85]

I took £850 for the last one i did, not bad for 12 hours

£850 for a days graft is not to be sniffed at, and if you can work that fast, more power to you, I dont think I could.

Fastest I've done is 2 bed bungalow rewire with 3/4 sockets per room, all chased + BT's and TV points, me and a 3rd yr apprentice 4 days working 11 hours a day then me on my own for another 11 hr day. I made about £2,500-£3000 profit in those 5 days, so was pretty chuffed.

Never done any council work.
Rewiring a house a day and getting paid a ton to do it.....seriously? I'd want a grand a day.

 

[highspark]

I'm not having this at all. As said new building regs you should have extractors and smokes on top of a shower, cooker, up sockets. Down sockets, kit sockets, up lights, down lights and a consumer unit. 4 sockets in each living room 6 in kitchen. 1 in up hall one in down hall. First and second fixed in a day no way!!

These houses must have one socket per room. It takes me and apprentice 6 full days to do lived in requires. 5 for empty with carpets

 

[Engineer54]

It was common practice for council house rewires to take a day, whole estates were rewired using this time frame in the late 70's and 80's. Not saying that that everything was to to-days requirements, regarding min number of sockets per designated room and fans etc, it was more like replacing like for like, with a couple of added sockets in the kitchen!! ..lol!! And they were completed to a pretty high standard as well!! But then that's when being an electrician actually meant something!! lol!!

Still reckon it could be done in a day today, once you get into a system of working with 2 sparks and a mate.

 

[johnboy6083]

Sod all that chasing though. When i first left the army, i was a mtae, doing house bashing in Bromley, and we rewired a few houses, chasing completely by hand. It kills your arms and wrists. Ive also done rewires on a housing project that had bricks that were meade from this black stuff, i think it contained iron filings. We had a chaser, but it didnt like it one bit, and we were forever changing the blades.
I later discovered the far more complex and interesting world of industrial electrics, and i enjoy it a lot more.

 

[imago]

So how does the testing and write up figure in this? I can see how three blokes can do three days work in a day, but the testing can't be done until the circuits are in. To do all the tests and write up the results takes a fair bit of time surely?

 

[telectrix]

On decent homes work they rip out the kitchen and bathroom on day one, then you rewire on day two, then they come back to fit new kitchen, bathroom and tile.
Theres nothing holding you up (except the furniture :Mr-T: )

so..... , who takes the faceplates off for the tiler and then refits them after? how long do you wait for the plaster to go off after 1st fix? all in a day? pull the other one.

 

[Engineer54]

So how does the testing and write up figure in this? I can see how three blokes can do three days work in a day, but the testing can't be done until the circuits are in. To do all the tests and write up the results takes a fair bit of time surely?

The write-up's, well those will probably be done down the pub!! Probably won't make much sense in the morning mind!! ...lol!!

 

[vernam616]

Tiler unscrews the front, tiles then screws back

It happens, end of