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They Don't want the hassle of a rewire, or really 100% need it mate. Its a 'not for profit' job for family.What the hell! I am dreaming? Just rewire the property, seriously...???
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they would be happiest if nothing could be done and they got a cert for the insurance mate, as with a lot of the population!I'm not saying make a profit out of it mate, just do the job properly instead of 'bodging' as a favour. I doubt you will get thanked if something goes wrong.
Doing a bit of work for a family member, fuseboard change etc..
Having a look around I found that the DB is a bakelite, wooden backed wylex 10mm tails 4mm earth.
All earthing is in black cable.
No bonding
Lighting circuits have no earths
Many switches are round on wooden pattresses
Oval-ish shaped bakelite MK sockets on wooden pattresses
PVC twin, 3cores have white has L2
Anyone guess a date just out of interest? they seem to think it is from 1961.
Problem I have is the lighting circuits, I can rewire the feeds but not the switchwires, as they are clipped, painted, caulked, painted and painted onto the door frames of recently decorated rooms and are extremely awkward to remove!
Is this worth doing?
Or should I just convince them to change the odd metal fitting back to pendants/class 2 fittings?
EDIT:- Forgot to mention IR is fine, well over 100 mOHms
An uncle and aunt of my wife got someone out to get their upstairs lights working again a few years back. I went up a few days later on an unrelated thing and took a little look at what they had, it was an old memora CU with rewireable porvelain fuse carriers, VIR cable which was well past it's sell by date and the CU was showing signs of water ingress. I told them that the CU needed to be moved and they should seriously think about rewiring, her uncle (who was tighter than a duck's backside)told me that I didn't know what the hell I was talking about because everything was working and that I was trying to screw him for money.
What can you do? When he died he left just over 250k in cash
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