Hi all
I've recently been foolish enough to buy an 1850s house. Its listed, and so is the existing wiring, bloody good job conservation don't include that as part of the things that can't be touched. Un-eartherd metal conduit with two red canvas coated rubber conductors that break up when you bend them so you can see the cores inside anyone? And thats the safe stuff....... Can I keep all those quaint ceramic toggle light switches .... ?
Moving on from this if we may, here are some probably silly questions about safe zones.Very entertaining and interesting reading on the subject so far !!
There is at least the luxury of a lot of room to work in the cellar; nothing but the bare 7"x3" joists of the ground floor that are 8' 6" above the stone flags beneath. Ignoring the many rotted beam ends and numerous toads hopping about....
From that:
1. Can all the cables from the CUs to the rest of the house circuits be run in suitably earthed steel cable basket (2" mesh) bolted to the joists in the cellar ? i.e. "Yes big nose, thats surface mounting!!"
2. If _PART_ of a cable is outside of a safe zone, (for example to route around some object that can't be drilled through / mashed / bent / looked at funny / farted near ; see listed status........) can that part alone be mecahnically protected, or does the whole thing need to be sorted ?
All fifteen odd circuits (five levels, outside, garage, kitchen...) will be on RCD or RCBO protection with two CUs to accommodate sensible combinations of lights/ rings/ trips/ inconvenience scenarios.
Thanks in advance for reading. Hope it makes sense.
PS. Badger: 1.5mm cable opinions. Sue them for defamation of character or slander; perhaps both and give the caretaker a slice when ya win !!. Bang out of order they were and thats _not_ compensation culture talking. People can't just say c**k faced things like that to your face with witnesses and expect to get away with it.
I've recently been foolish enough to buy an 1850s house. Its listed, and so is the existing wiring, bloody good job conservation don't include that as part of the things that can't be touched. Un-eartherd metal conduit with two red canvas coated rubber conductors that break up when you bend them so you can see the cores inside anyone? And thats the safe stuff....... Can I keep all those quaint ceramic toggle light switches .... ?
Moving on from this if we may, here are some probably silly questions about safe zones.Very entertaining and interesting reading on the subject so far !!
There is at least the luxury of a lot of room to work in the cellar; nothing but the bare 7"x3" joists of the ground floor that are 8' 6" above the stone flags beneath. Ignoring the many rotted beam ends and numerous toads hopping about....
From that:
1. Can all the cables from the CUs to the rest of the house circuits be run in suitably earthed steel cable basket (2" mesh) bolted to the joists in the cellar ? i.e. "Yes big nose, thats surface mounting!!"
2. If _PART_ of a cable is outside of a safe zone, (for example to route around some object that can't be drilled through / mashed / bent / looked at funny / farted near ; see listed status........) can that part alone be mecahnically protected, or does the whole thing need to be sorted ?
All fifteen odd circuits (five levels, outside, garage, kitchen...) will be on RCD or RCBO protection with two CUs to accommodate sensible combinations of lights/ rings/ trips/ inconvenience scenarios.
Thanks in advance for reading. Hope it makes sense.
PS. Badger: 1.5mm cable opinions. Sue them for defamation of character or slander; perhaps both and give the caretaker a slice when ya win !!. Bang out of order they were and thats _not_ compensation culture talking. People can't just say c**k faced things like that to your face with witnesses and expect to get away with it.
