rewiring

[AJAY198887]

Hi, I have just bought a ground floor massinette, and asked my electrician for an electrician certificate. He went into the property and opened a few sockets to have a look at the wiring behind. The wiring looks in extremely good condition but is only black and red separate single wires (not 2 wires in an outer casing). There is no earth wire. The sockets have a wooden box behind them instead of the more modern metal ones. My electrician has stated that I have to have the full rewiring redone in the whole flat. I just wanted to check if there was any way around having to get the full rewiring done as the massionette is fully decorated to a high spec.
Thanks in advance.

 

[David M]

Its all pointless! Until we have more detail there is no right or wrong advise to give regarding the condition of the installation.

To the O.P

As already mentioned - get a reputable electrician in to do a proper inspection and test. Then come back to us with his/her detailed report.

 

[Dave the spark]

Also, you would need to know if there is a CPC serving the length of the ring final circuit, which as there's no earth conductor and wooden boxes I would highly doubt it. Again though, this needs to be ascertained through the correct test procedures.

It's in steel conduit, therefore there must be a cpc at every point already

@GMES I win

 

[Hellmooth]

Davesparks is never wrong so he wins.........

 

[Pete999]

I have no problem running a cpc withing steel conduit as well as fly leads. Belt & braces imo

No that's by far the best solution if what we are being told

Davesparks is never wrong so he wins.........

Crawler

 

[Hellmooth]

No that's by far the best solution if what we are being told

Crawler

Sarcasm over ones head Pete

 

[davesparks]

Sorry Dave you are saying that if the conduit is not connected into the box (if it's wooden) then use a connection via a flying lead connected to the conduit, that would be a tad difficult with the tube being buried in the plaster, don't you think? good idea though.

No, I'm saying that there are ways the original installers could have made the connections to a fly lead