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This week we are on a job until Friday. The customers have their builder coming in next week to fit a new kitchen and redecorate the downstairs. The customer booked us in for this week to sort out the electrics in the property. We found that there is only one ring main on the ground floor of the house and explained that if they are having a new kitchen fitted then it would be advisable to have the kitchen wired on its own ring main. So to help the customer out with regards the price we said that instead of a complete rewire of the downstairs ring and kitchen we would try to find the ends of the ring that feed the kitchen and replace the two ends and take them back to the consumer unit , that we are also fitting, to create a new kitchen ring. We can then take the other ends of the downstairs ring and replace them and take them back to the new consumer unit. This way it will not be a complete rewire but it will save them money and help with the loading on the existing downstairs ring main, As kitchens do have the biggest load in a property, i.e. washing machines, kettles etc.There are quite a few other jobs required in the property to sort out so that when we fit the new consumer unit we do not have any nuisance tripping. I.e. earth sleeveing etc.
The other job is to rewire the garage on the side of the property and run in a new 16mm T&E cable to feed a secondary consumer unit. The garage had been wired with a 2.5mm twin and earth feeding an old metal fuse box from a socket in the kitchen. The picture I took today I felt I had to show you all. This is part of the existing wiring in the garage. Was this really an electrician who done this ?
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