Blue Fox
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Hello all,
Been to check out a c/u change today and found the lighting circuit had no earth. Upstairs only has pendant lights with normal white switches except 2 which were the original 1950's switches but downstairs they have 3 lights (1 in kitchen, 1 in living room, 1 in dining room) which require an earth as they are the metal bar with multi lamps on it type. 1 of these would be very very difficult to get an earth to as its below the bathroom which has a tiled floor and the other 2 would be difficult and the customer doesn't want me pulling up the floorbards above and rewiring the lighting circuit. Other than changing these to pendants are there any other obvious solutions without rewiring the circuit?
On the same house a lot of the wiring is the original 1950's stuff. It all tests out ok but can someone please tell me the sizes these cables are liable to be? They are all multi strand type not single core if that helps. Going to need the size for the cert. Also they are not copper cores.
Been to check out a c/u change today and found the lighting circuit had no earth. Upstairs only has pendant lights with normal white switches except 2 which were the original 1950's switches but downstairs they have 3 lights (1 in kitchen, 1 in living room, 1 in dining room) which require an earth as they are the metal bar with multi lamps on it type. 1 of these would be very very difficult to get an earth to as its below the bathroom which has a tiled floor and the other 2 would be difficult and the customer doesn't want me pulling up the floorbards above and rewiring the lighting circuit. Other than changing these to pendants are there any other obvious solutions without rewiring the circuit?
On the same house a lot of the wiring is the original 1950's stuff. It all tests out ok but can someone please tell me the sizes these cables are liable to be? They are all multi strand type not single core if that helps. Going to need the size for the cert. Also they are not copper cores.