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Cowboy builders?
Nurse Julie:
--- Quote from: Aly-b on July 11, 2016, 03:47:26 PM ---With the greatest of respect I think you are worrying needlessly.
Think it will look nice when it is finished.
I take it the walls will be tiled so any plastering,cabling will not be seen.
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Surely that's the point of having electric cables running vertical or horizontal isn't it, so when the walls are tiled you know where the wires are. ?
hairygit:
Exactly Julie, the regs used to say if not vertical or horizontal it required protection by an earthed steel channel, and buried 50mm, okay the RCD will stop someone getting a shock if they drill or nail into it, but the wall would need stripping back to replace the cable!
Aly-b:
Had you moved into the house after the kitchen was fitted and did not know where the cables were fitted and you wanted to drill the wall, the sensible thing to do is test the walls with a suitable device.Then you would know where a cable or pipe is.
ST1100:
--- Quote from: hairygit on July 11, 2016, 10:39:35 AM ---...normally the plastering and decorating is done first, then the flooring, then the kitchen units...
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This site/setup is wrong in so many ways...
And all the kitchen cabinets have to come off before anything else can be finalized...
matthewmosse:
I rent off my parents and before I moved in I helped the electrician re wire the place, I reacon our spark would have a fit and downright refuse to put his name to that job, especially the diagonal wiring. I have worked on instalation with 2 time served electricians and both were adamant about the diagonal wires thing unless the wire comes up to a sloping roof then it goes streight until no longer possible and is routed somas to be protected by several inches of solid timber perlin and roof truss. Yes you can tile up to but not under the kitchien units, but that may be a long term issue as it leaves a area for damp to get under units and lift the tiles, hence part of our rennovation was removing a 8 year old tiling job that was already cracking and comming loose and replacing with floorboards running right to the wall. Ok for a rental where the landlord is assuming the floor will either suffer abuse or he'll sell soon enough for it to pay for itself he might think that ok, but if it were my house....
As to the idiots ripping half of the house appart and expecting you to live in a building site, where I used to work as a carer, when they did that to the kitchien the tennant was moved to a b&b for the 3 days it was in a state. To my mind and how we did our own house, the best way must be to make the room sound and plastered and painted, then pop the kitchen in - the kitchien is basically flat pack furniture after all.
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