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Grounds for recommending a full rewire?
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<blockquote data-quote="ProDave" data-source="post: 460922" data-attributes="member: 6969"><p>That does look like junction box hell</p><p></p><p>He is probably right, a rewire is better, but he can't force you. He can however decline to do any work if he thinks what you want is not safe.</p><p></p><p>There is a halfway house that I do sometimes, I call it a refurbishment, not a rewire, I did one just a few weeks ago. It is essentially a rewire, but using some legs of the original circuits where it can be verified the cable is in good condition to avoid too much disruption to the house, and adding new cable where there is doubt or where extra sockets etc are required.</p><p></p><p>Junction boxes under the floor are not good. But again if the cable is all good, you can replace these with maintenance free junction boxes.</p><p></p><p>But often it might well be cheaper to start again as tracing and testing existing cables may well take longer than fitting new.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ProDave, post: 460922, member: 6969"] That does look like junction box hell He is probably right, a rewire is better, but he can't force you. He can however decline to do any work if he thinks what you want is not safe. There is a halfway house that I do sometimes, I call it a refurbishment, not a rewire, I did one just a few weeks ago. It is essentially a rewire, but using some legs of the original circuits where it can be verified the cable is in good condition to avoid too much disruption to the house, and adding new cable where there is doubt or where extra sockets etc are required. Junction boxes under the floor are not good. But again if the cable is all good, you can replace these with maintenance free junction boxes. But often it might well be cheaper to start again as tracing and testing existing cables may well take longer than fitting new. [/QUOTE]
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