RE: Re: New UK Building Regs. Will Outlaw DIY Wiring

["Dean Barrett" <dean@xxxxxxxxx>]

A lot of what you mention was standard practice.

No lighting circuits had earths. Twin flex was commonly used, which does
look like speaker cable.

Joints were often done with ceramic screw things.  Regs now state no joints
in a new install.



Dean.






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-----Original Message-----
From: Graham Howe [mailto:graham@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 18 March 2004 12:19
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] Re: New UK Building Regs. Will Outlaw DIY Wiring


> How many local electricians will have seen any HA installs ? I can
hear the
> sharp intake of breath from the local guy and bill going through
the roof as
> I type :-)

Exactly the reason I did my install myself, I can't imagine what
your average sparks would have thought of running every single light
and light switch back to one of three big distribution boards.

However I am 100% sure that what I have installed is much safer than
the rubbish that was there before. After all I don't think that a
ceiling light supplied by speaker wire coming from a 'junction box'*
with 5 mains spurs comming out of it, was quite up to regs anyway!

I am still amazed at how the house has managed to survive this long
with wiring that broke every rule in the book, not a single earth to
any light or switch and plenty of wood chips, horse hair and straw
under every floor board.



* junction box is not actually the best way of describing several
connector blocks of differing sizes all linked together and wrapped
up lots of oozing old insulation tape. However the tape did do a
reasonable job of holding the wires in place where screws had been
overlooked. And I do miss the high tech pressure activated lighting
in the dining room which would blink on and off as the kids ran
around upstairs ;-)



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