Rewire Pain

[sparky05084]

Hey all. Well, to be honest I'm just having a bit of a whinge really but we all do from time to time. So, started a rewire yesterday on a 4 bed house and it's actually the first I've done on my jack.

It's good experience like and all the decisions I make are obviously my own. Nobody to blame except me if anything goes wrong

I think I'm making good progress as the upstairs lights are wired and this includes downlights cut out in the bathroom. Also, I have downstairs lights partially wired and starting to pull legs in for upstairs ring main. Now, the issue I have is one of the bedrooms is being used as storage and the other 3 has furniture etc in them so I'm trying my best to jiggle the rooms around to suit and lift the appropiate boards up at the same time.

The idea is that I can wire downstairs lights with downstairs ringmain and gradually put each room back together. Think of it in a clockwise direction going from room to room then finally, the fourth bedroom (used for storage) will be the last room I enter.

Hope this makes sense.

I feel though that progress is slow and I'm consious of time. The customer told me that he wished he had of moved all of the furniture out prior to me starting and I feel this would have been a big advantage but it's too late for that now. I will still be able to do it but the whole idea of moving from room to room and of course trying to find somewhere to store all the materials and tools etc without hindering floor space is a bit tedious.

Perhaps I'm looking into this too much. What's your experience people with lived in rewires?

Remember this is my first so any advice would be really appreciated. Many thanks.

 

[onions1066]

i could imagine the pay is good, every electrician should try it out just for 1 day in there life!!!, i take my hat off to you for what you do its not a job i would like to do every day, it must be a nightmare when the tenants rooms are all full of stuff and expect you to work around it and all rooms are fitted with laminate flooring (do you find that a problem?)

to be fair to the inspectors they get laminate floors either removed from upstairs we get there or the tennants agree for us to lift it with a circular saw and a big hammer, and i'm sure if you've ever had the pleasure of working in some of these propertys you will be aware that the floors are never fitted very well anyway so us ripping them up isn't a great loss. we normally do 3 months and then move onto the commercial side to have a break for a few weeks, we find commercial/industrial alot more leisurely pace. i do think it's something that most electricians should do at some point, we get apprentices come through and i do believe this is good training for them it not only improves standard it also improves there speed.