Rewire opinions

[Gazthesparky]

Hi all

just been to have a look at a job and wanted options on what circuits to install and quote for

the Job is a total renovation so I was asked to go and carry out a eicr on the installation. I have suggested a total rewire due to lots and lots of diy wiring and it will be quicker to rip out and rewire. Now here's where I'm a bit stuck and want general opinions

the house is a 2 room upstairs flat with a enclosed stairwell and extra room which is a bathroom at the back of the house so it's tiny.

i don't know whether to install 2 light circuits and 2 ring circuits onto a duel RCD board. One light circuit in the front room and the other in the rear room then by the time I've put lights in the stairwell and cupboards that's there , the lighting circuits will have plenty of points on them so I can justify 2 circuits.

then there is the socket circuits would you run 2 circuits ? One for the front room and one for the rear. This then means that there is a max of 4 sockets on each circuit. Or would you run one circuit.

this then means that it won't comply to the regulations of splitting the house circuits over 2 RCDs to minimise loss of power.

just after a general consensus on the situation

Also there is floorboards so rewiring is going to be fairly strait forward. The issue I've got is there is a shop underneath and my concern is that there will be circuits from the upstairs flat I'm rewiring and the circuits for the shop below will be run in the same ceiling/floor space. Hence meaning 2 supply's from different distribution points

do you see this as a problem ?

Any suggestions greatly
received

 

[Gazthesparky]

I'd very much doubt the shops cables will be running under your floor.... Surely it would have some sort of fire barrier etc and if its faily modern then the shop will have been renovated and surely been rewired via its own unit? But stranger things have happened.....As for the flat I'd stick 2 lighting circuits and one socket circuit, individual rcbo's

You would think that the shops wiring is kept seperate and I'm guessing I won't know untill I lift the floors but going by the rest of the house I doubt very much that there's fire barriers lol from what I can gather it use to be a house years gone by and was sold off and a shop was made downstairs

Going to put rcbos in and 2 lighting circuits and one ring and a radial thanks for the input