rewire

[growler]

the house i am due to rewire has floorboards on the ground floor, can i rewire the sockets from underneath the same as you would the first floor ? are we permitted to drill out as normal ? tia

 

[telectrix]

course you can, but i'd recommend clipping cables under floor where possible, and first, ensure there's no rodent presence.

 

[7029 dave]

Way you go, no issue.

 

[growler]

thanks lads !

 

[DPG]

I'm intrigued to know why you thought it may not be allowed?
Daz

 

[Amp David]

Sure you have to come down the walls on the ground floor.

 

[Resu]

Sure you have to come down the walls on the ground floor.

Why?

 

[telectrix]

Sure you have to come down the walls on the ground floor.

??? whynot up from below, as the per upstairs sockets

 

[Leesparkykent]

Its standard practise to wire the ground floor sockets from below if there is access...Less cable, less chasing,less making good and most importantly less work.

 

[Amp David]

Well upstairs people would expect the wiring to come up to the sockets and downstairs drop down to the sockets.

Might just be a glossop rule of thumb

 

[Rpa07]

More chasing but less floorboards up . . . Maybe same length of cable run though but you just wouldn't then keep going back up and then down it would be adding 4 metres to each socket and 4 in a room and the inbetween drop runs, up goes your impedance!

 

[Rpa07]

Unless you had a concrete floor then no choice!

 

[Pete999]

the house i am due to rewire has floorboards on the ground floor, can i rewire the sockets from underneath the same as you would the first floor ? are we permitted to drill out as normal ? tia

Is there not a space underneath the timber joists? you wouldn't need to drill any joists.

 

[growler]

Dunno yet

 

[Pete999]

Dunno yet

Is it an old property? in my younger days we used to be able to cut a trap in the ground floor timber boards and sen the Apprentice down the trap, and all we did was to push cables down at the positions of the sockets and get him to run the cables around the downstairs ring, mind you in todays Nanny state you might get in trouble for exploiting the young.