RE: Cabling the house

["Keith Doxey" <ukha@xxxxxxx>]

The chipboard flooring will be VERY WEAK if you do that.

Flooring panels intelock along their edges to give support to each other
which is why you cant easily get them up again.

If you do that you will have to fix a batten along the cut edge of the
floor
to provide support to the replaced flooring. Very bad ASCII drawing follows

floor  loose bit   floor
------ ----------- ----
___         ___

^           ^
battens to support panel


Keith


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Kaye [mailto:mark@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 13 September 2001 21:16
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Cabling the house
>
>
> I am considering cutting some of the chipboard up with a shallow
> circular saw before nailing it back down again.  Obviously before the
> carpets go in!  Not sure if that will help.  To be honest I was gutted
> about the situation and haven't really thought about it much.  I was
> going to floodwire but given the task (it took me 2 days to route 8
> cables in my current place after being built) I don't think I'll be
> patient enough not to cut corners - a very bad thing.
>
> Ohh well.  Any advice welcome.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Phil Harris [mailto:phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx]
> >
> > > I did notice (before the dry
> > > lining) that the stud partitions have horizontal bracing
> > which will make
> > > it _very_ difficult to drop wires down now the lining has
gone up.
> >
> > That's normal ... in many ways it's far easier to have solid
walls.
> >
> > I found out the same myself ... I thought stud walls would be
> > easier but
> > no...
> >
> > > Has anyone got any ideas on the best way to wire up a newly
> > built house?
> >
> > Carefully...
> >
> > Phil
>
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