Hi everyone - firstly a happy, and hopefully prosperous new year to all.
I thought I would start the year on a thread that that’s been around before but usually leads to more questions than answers - central (and maybe in future) smart lighting.
I have a new build to rewire which is a big building and because of this made me have a rethink about how I wire it. There's a couple of issues driving this which others will no doubt have faced before already:-
- the shape of the building means a lot of cabling to a CU at the other end of the building;
- the customer wants a lot of light fittings / led strip / and downlighters to be installed - again a lot of cable and switching;
- the attic is going to get 450mm of rockwool and I just hate throwing cable in and burying it all under it. Going back up after is near impossible as you can’t find the timber to walk on when it’s under that amount of insulation;
So: my options I think are:
- run all of the attic wiring in tray or something higher above where the insulation will be laid - problem here is that I will end up with a cobweb of cables dropping down through the insulation to each light point / switch etc.
- run all cables first but go for a central wiring panel solution. Insulation can then go over them but all cable ends are available at either end so risk of wiring errors / ability to make changes is mostly covered. The downside here is more cabling though;
Any thoughts guys - there's clearly not a perfect answer but i'd value others expereicnes on this
I thought I would start the year on a thread that that’s been around before but usually leads to more questions than answers - central (and maybe in future) smart lighting.
I have a new build to rewire which is a big building and because of this made me have a rethink about how I wire it. There's a couple of issues driving this which others will no doubt have faced before already:-
- the shape of the building means a lot of cabling to a CU at the other end of the building;
- the customer wants a lot of light fittings / led strip / and downlighters to be installed - again a lot of cable and switching;
- the attic is going to get 450mm of rockwool and I just hate throwing cable in and burying it all under it. Going back up after is near impossible as you can’t find the timber to walk on when it’s under that amount of insulation;
So: my options I think are:
- run all of the attic wiring in tray or something higher above where the insulation will be laid - problem here is that I will end up with a cobweb of cables dropping down through the insulation to each light point / switch etc.
- run all cables first but go for a central wiring panel solution. Insulation can then go over them but all cable ends are available at either end so risk of wiring errors / ability to make changes is mostly covered. The downside here is more cabling though;
Any thoughts guys - there's clearly not a perfect answer but i'd value others expereicnes on this
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