Wiring in Flying Freehold properties

[kingeri]

I'm on with rewiring a front house in a back-to-back flying freehold property, where the top attic floor goes over the top of part of the house behind. I've got some floorboards up on the top floor, and the socket cables for this property runs alongside the lighting wiring for the house behind. I'm encountering more and more of the house behind's wiring. My concern is that in the future someone working in the house behind will come across the wiring I'm doing today and interfere with it or damage it. Are there any special measures to be taken in a case like this?

 

[kingeri]

Next door's still on VIR by the way!

 

[RyanCheetham]

Not really alot you can do that i can think of. However i would be telling the other party about the VIR cable

 

[kingeri]

I was lucky I didn't automatically rip it out thinking it was part of this house's wiring. Could have been shocking.

 

[Engineer54]

Have to be a pretty thick spark , not to know the difference between the PVC your now installing and the VIR of the other property he'll be working on!! lol!!

 

[RyanCheetham]

I was lucky I didn't automatically rip it out thinking it was part of this house's wiring. Could have been shocking.

Nice pun

 

[kingeri]

This stuff is installed right under the floorboards too. Had a word with chap behind but he didn't seem interested.

 

[RyanCheetham]

It is rare for them to be bothered. Just make a note on the cert for future sparks that its there and belongs to the neighbour

 

[kingeri]

Found a few dangerous connections and damaged parts of the VIR. Was a bit concerned TBH, as this stuff is running right under a kiddies bedroom. Left the homeowner to broach the subject with the folks from the house behind. I wonder who owns the void between one house's floorboards and the other's ceiling.

 

[Fin170]

We are in a flying freehold, haven't come across any of the neighbours wiring yet (original rubber still runs the length of all 3 houses). Been in there house and it's typical landlord, Bakelite wylex, nothing touched since the 60s, no fire alarms. Which could provide a potential problem given the houses are only separated by stud walls full of news paper

 

[kingeri]

That's a similar situation here, though both houses are privately owned. The top floor bedrooms appear to have a single layer of chipboard between them and the other house's loft.