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Hi everyone, firstly many thanks for any input and taking time out the day to help.
Ive edited the post to make more clear as some are reading this completely wrong , while others have advised on the point
basically a guy owns a car garage one half the building is the double height garage next to that is an attached office ,above the office the building owner wants to put in a small 1 bed flat.the whole building is owned by the same guy who is leasing out the seperate parts of the building .ive told him to have a new 100amp single phase supply installed by the local supply authorities dedicated to "the flat to be ".I'm struggling to find help on the rules regarding cables which are existing and routed through part of the building to be converted to a flat and feed the office below and the garage inc shared circuits from the office such as a ring main.supplying the office and proposed flat .i will be installing new circuits throughout for the flat and not using any of the existing circuits.
the question is what to do with cables that run through the proposed flat to supply circuits in the office below and garage adjacent
A new solid false floor with sound protection is being installed rendering the old floor void totally inaccessible so I'm not concerned about those cables run in the floor void but circuits such as the ring main which currently supply the "flat to be" and office below can the existing wiring be left in despite running through the walls ,would crimping through the old ring and blanking the old points be suitable whilst removing as much wiring as possible or would the complete circuit need re-routing outside the flat ? That will triple the work needed.to wire the flat itself will be easy but I'm concerned about what to do with the cables running through the walls /under the floors and there's a large section of plastic containment running on a wall attached to and supplying the garages various circuits I proposed a false wall be installed to make the containment then outside the actual flat.the owner of the building wants the conversion done as cheap as possible obviously as always.can the existing wiring that runs through the flat supplying the garage and office all be left as is or made inaccessible eg, buried in the walls or will it need rewiring aswell outside the flat? i realise in the ideal world we would re route it all and rewire as required the circuits supplying the other sections of the building but that will be a huge undertaking so was wanting to see opinions and those In The know what the rules are In this circumstance is there anything the regs say about this?
Many thanks
Ive edited the post to make more clear as some are reading this completely wrong , while others have advised on the point
basically a guy owns a car garage one half the building is the double height garage next to that is an attached office ,above the office the building owner wants to put in a small 1 bed flat.the whole building is owned by the same guy who is leasing out the seperate parts of the building .ive told him to have a new 100amp single phase supply installed by the local supply authorities dedicated to "the flat to be ".I'm struggling to find help on the rules regarding cables which are existing and routed through part of the building to be converted to a flat and feed the office below and the garage inc shared circuits from the office such as a ring main.supplying the office and proposed flat .i will be installing new circuits throughout for the flat and not using any of the existing circuits.
the question is what to do with cables that run through the proposed flat to supply circuits in the office below and garage adjacent
A new solid false floor with sound protection is being installed rendering the old floor void totally inaccessible so I'm not concerned about those cables run in the floor void but circuits such as the ring main which currently supply the "flat to be" and office below can the existing wiring be left in despite running through the walls ,would crimping through the old ring and blanking the old points be suitable whilst removing as much wiring as possible or would the complete circuit need re-routing outside the flat ? That will triple the work needed.to wire the flat itself will be easy but I'm concerned about what to do with the cables running through the walls /under the floors and there's a large section of plastic containment running on a wall attached to and supplying the garages various circuits I proposed a false wall be installed to make the containment then outside the actual flat.the owner of the building wants the conversion done as cheap as possible obviously as always.can the existing wiring that runs through the flat supplying the garage and office all be left as is or made inaccessible eg, buried in the walls or will it need rewiring aswell outside the flat? i realise in the ideal world we would re route it all and rewire as required the circuits supplying the other sections of the building but that will be a huge undertaking so was wanting to see opinions and those In The know what the rules are In this circumstance is there anything the regs say about this?
Many thanks
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