Additional Electrics

EddS

Thanks for all the suggestions, lots to think about before the electrician visits us for the quote

aneary

dimbo61 wrote: »

3 double sockets in every bedroom.
Consider where you will be putting TV,s with a double socket behind.
Cat 6 cable will help with Internet/Cable TV
6 double sockets in Kitchen with 3 doubles near worksurface.
Outside socket for Hoover, Jet washer, Xmas lights etc.
Security lights front and rear and alarm system / smoke alarms

I'd up that I have three double sockets in my room and I still need an extension plug.

Bedside table light
Tablet
Phone
Radio alarm clock
Garmin charger

So that is 5 things on just my side of the bed.

Add in a hair dryer/straightens etc you need more than 3 double sockets, in your bedroom add in TV, dvd player etc.

Owain_Moneysaver

dimbo61 wrote: »

3 double sockets in every bedroom.

I've just put 7 in the small bedroom, and a couple more wouldn't have gone amiss.

agrinnall

I've just mentally counted up and I have 24 sockets in my fairly small living room! There are actually 3 double sockets in the walls, but from 3 of them I have 4 gang extensions and from a fourth I have a 10 socket tower.

aneary

dimbo61 wrote: »

Consider where you will be putting TV,s with a double socket behind.

Also ignore this.

I need 4 sockets for my TV
The TV
The Blu-ray player
The Sound box
The cable box

I also have my router next to the TV and a phone so I need 6 sockets behind my TV.

knightstyle

1. Make the consumer unit easy to get at, not buried in an under stairs dark hole.
2. Put an extra switch upstairs to turn the downstairs hall light on and off.
3. Outside lights switched from indoors.
4. Obviously plan the sockets, some with usb chargers built in.

ReadingTim

You can replace a 'normal' single and double (ie 1 and 2 gang) sockets for ones with USB sockets built in yourself - fill yer boots with the different flavours available at screwfix, here

AnotherJoe

EddS wrote: »

Hello,
We are going to get a rewire done on a house we have just brought and I'm wandering if anyone wished that they had got something else done during their rewire? For example, more plug sockets.
This will be the first place we have brought and don't have to move immediately so want to get this done before we move in. One thing I'm thinking of is an outside socket/terminal on it's own fuse box loop (I need to learn the terminology).
Thanks all!

The problem with doing it before you move in is, there will be places you only discover later needed one.

Do you have the ability to spend a day or two there really looking around? And if you have any hesitation if you need one in a place, teh answer is "yes".

I'm not convinced by the need for Ethernet cabling, old tech and can easily be substituted for the one or two places you may find you need it later by powerline technology.

Slithery

Powerline adapters are nowhere near as good as CAT6 cabling, which isn't 'old technology' - The standard was only ratified in 2009.

This from someone who has multiple 10Gb/s devices on my home network

AnotherJoe

Id say it’s olds in terms of devices that can use it. More and more devices expect WiFi or Bluetooth.