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What are your thoughts on this? I’ve just went and viewed 1 of my customers houses who wants a price for a re-wire...
 

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Yes I’ve never seen them run across the front of the house like that- eye saw. I will get him to get the DNO out. He said he’d want the cable buried underground and put into the garage... anybody any rough guess how much this would cost?
 
that outside wiring is down tonDNO>however,looking at the circuit cables from CU. why does he want a rewire?
 
I must say I have never seen a DNO supply come in like that!

I can see they might want a new CU as the old Wylex one getting on, and at some point a 2nd box has been added (was it "white meter" storage heater at some point?). Odd they only have one MCB replacement in it! Guess for lights that kept blowing 5A fuse wire in the past?
 
My customer only purchased the house recently and got the keys this week so he has no past experiences with the house, he is contacting the DNO tomorrow. All the neighbouring houses have no cables on the outside of there property’s like this so let’s see what comes back....
 
my guess is that it was an overhead supply, converted to underground. maybe the Cut-out was in a different place originally, relocated when the porch was built?
 
Fairly common to have the supply run over the front of all the houses here. It's nice to see insulated joints, I've seen a few at that level are uninsulated and look to have always been that way...
 

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