Chasing walls.....weapon of choice.

[Adam W]

Metabo 230v wall chaser, Trend M Class vac and SDS hammer drill for me.
I didn't choose the setup the company bought it for me, but I've got no complaints with it.

 

[MJPD29]

Corded grinder and 110v sds on hammer or kango if it is available at the time

 

[mhar]

Obviously you guys do not come accross beach pebble or Marland brick, both very common around here. Both require diamond cutting disks and then grinding disks. Beach pebbles can deflect a drill bit when drilling through a wall causing it to jam,have had to cut a few off and leave them in the wall

 

[suffolkspark]

I have the cheapo titan chaser and titan hoover, long hose off ebay, works a treat as long as you change the hoover bag frequently as thats their let down there ----. The whole setup is £130 though! Tap it out by hand after or sds, i use the armeg box chaser on my sds for boxes

 

[Adam W]

Obviously you guys do not come accross beach pebble or Marland brick, both very common around here. Both require diamond cutting disks and then grinding disks. Beach pebbles can deflect a drill bit when drilling through a wall causing it to jam,have had to cut a few off and leave them in the wall

Nope, never had to work with cob or bungaroosh either.
I use diamond discs anyway, which cuts through anything I've come across - plaster, brick, block, concrete, water pipes...

 

[Tes369]

Either a Labourer or an Apprentice armed with a 110v wall chaser and a piece of galv conduit for a depth check. Obviously walls marked out first so they can't mess it up.

** ideally main builders labourer could be used to do it like on many other sites.

Then sit back put the kettle on read the paper or electrical drawings. I have too many much more important issues to contend with than wall chasing and getting myself dusty and dirty.

 

[Pete999]

Maybe in your day...You wouldn’t be competitive on a rewire using these methods now.

Perhaps the client would opt for surface mounted install

 

[Leesparkykent]

Perhaps the client would opt for surface mounted install

Maybe council/housing association bashing. In my whole career I’ve never had a customer that’s opted for a trunking rewire apart from 24 flats in Stamford hill which were being done up for a housing association.

 

[Pete999]

Maybe council/housing association bashing. In my whole career I’ve never had a customer that’s opted for a trunking rewire apart from 24 flats in Stamford hill which were being done up for a housing association.

Yeah I know mate, just reminiscing back to the old days, should maybe, get up to date, at least with my thinking, kin chasing machines what ever next? Funny story about chasing, did a rewire (empty house) with my Lad, and we had to cross a solid floor under the stairs, RFC, bonding and Kitchen Radial, builders never told us they would be boxing the back of the void in, bit of a shock when we came back to 2nd fix to find al our hard work boxe in, a few expletives, but in hindsight we should have probably asked before we crossed the solid floor, a word beginning with T and ending in S

 

[Leesparkykent]

Yeah I know mate, just reminiscing back to the old days, should maybe, get up to date, at least with my thinking, kin chasing machines what ever next?

SDS drills, multi tools, Sabre saws, circular saws, impact drivers, etc. gone are the days of rawlplug jumpers, manual hand drills and knocking chases out by hand