Trunking - chasing wire through walls etc.

Davesnave

robotrobo wrote: »

A professional electrician re-wired my bungalow!, infact it was his bungalow i purchased!, the wireing is sunk in the walls , JUST, with no metal covering the cableing.

Hardly surprising, as metal trunking went out with the Ark.

I had it on my first house, together with the rubber sheathed cable. Neither was there for very long!

LaurenHeath123

robotrobo wrote: »

A professional electrician re-wired my bungalow!, infact it was his bungalow i purchased!, the wireing is sunk in the walls , JUST, with no metal covering the cableing.

My mum bought her house off a builder/ carpenter and I've never seen anything like it! Terrible job! I guess, someone who does something all day and then has to come home and spend their evenings/ weekends doing the same to their own property isn't going to put the same level of attention and care for detail as they do for their paying clients. Especially when they could probably botch things up and sell it for the same price anyway!

My grandpa is a builder and my nan has had her new kitchen boxed up under the stairs for years!

thescouselander

konark wrote: »

If you want it done right, do it yourself! You've already seen what a professional will do; the shoddiest job they can get away with.

Make sure you cover the cables with metal cable guard before re=plastering.

Totally agree with this. The last "professional" electrician I had round here left live wires sticking out of the wall half way through the job and also wired the light switches the wrong way round so the lights were on when the switch was in the off position. I ended up having to chase him round the job correcting all of his cockups.

Owain_Moneysaver

robotrobo wrote: »

A professional electrician re-wired my bungalow!, infact it was his bungalow i purchased!, the wireing is sunk in the walls , JUST, with no metal covering the cableing.

Doesn't have to have metal capping over the cables; metal capping does not count as trunking or conduit for cable protection outside permitted zones, and its real purposes is to protect the cables from the plasterer's trowel in new build where the walls are plastered after first fix wiring.

In rewires where only a small chase has to be cut out of the plaster and then made good, capping just increases the width of chase required with the attendant mess and costs.

Alias_Omega

Can also be oval conduit...


Do metal capping = rcd or rcbo protection due to the depth of cables within the walls..