[quote author=Bubba  link=1107769326/0#0 date=1107769326]...I have recently returned back to the electrical trade after a 2 year absence and are currently self employed.

I have an opportunity to work for a local company doing house re-wires on price work...The only house re-wires I have done in the past have been done on un-lived in properties so carrying out a re-wire on a lived in house is new to me.

Can anyone give me any advice on:

the best practice for carrying out a re-wire on a lived in house
how long a house (3 bed) should take to do with a sparkies mate
anything else I should need to know

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Rewiring lived-in houses is a real pain-i-t-a and it is a 'how long is a piece of string' type of question.

On average I do a three-bed standard rewire in about four days, with three days assisted by my [reliable] brother and the fourth day completing testing and connecting up the new CU, but it has taken as long as seven days on some jobs

Things you'll need to consider though:

How much stuff needs moving?

What state are the carpets? ( being replaced, or need to be looked after)

Is the loft boarded and full of cr*p?

How many other people/other trades might be in the house at the same time?

Do they have a million kids who will suddenly appear any time after 3pm and expect to occupy the whole of the first floor and use electricity?

How prepared are the occupants to live in a work-in-progress? Or do they expect every board to be put back, all carpets relaid, all furniture to be repositioned, every socket to work and every ornament [i.e. piece of pikey junk] to be dusted and replaced? In other words, will you spend three hours every day just moving stuff?

Are the occupants clean? That is, will you have to degrease and fumigate or get inocculations before you can touch anything? (Okay, a bit extreme that one, but if it's council houses you'll get a fair few flea bites!)

If the weather is wet and muddy, how well prepared are you to keep the dirt outside? (two pairs of footwear? slip-on covers? etc..)

If you'll be doing the jobs without seeing the house yourself beforehand you'll have to be prepared to tackle these and other issues from the start - you may find that you'll spend half the first day just working out a plan of action.  

If it was me it would have to be decent money!!!

[quote author=L.Spark  link=1107769326/0#2 date=1107785201]lol, think you covered that really well dingbat   [/quote]

Well, I mean... how dare people want to live in their own houses when I'm working on them. That's just sooooo unreasonable

[quote author=dingbat  link=1107769326/0#1 date=1107782975]



Things you'll need to consider though:

How much stuff needs moving?







Are the occupants clean? That is, will you have to degrease and fumigate or get inocculations before you can touch anything? (Okay, a bit extreme that one, but if it's council houses you'll get a fair few flea bites!)


If it was me it would have to be decent money!!! [/quote]

Yes,we are a dirty lot,those of us who live a council house.We dont wash,dont work, have 10 snotty nosed kids,our wifes are fat lazy bitches and now we are told that our houses have fleas.
What a load of CR@p

[quote author=riyou  link=1107769326/0#5 date=1107978340]

Yes,we are a dirty lot,those of us who live a council house.We dont wash,dont work, have 10 snotty nosed kids,our wifes are fat lazy bitches and now we are told that our houses have fleas.
What a load of CR@p
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Each to there own, I've been in council houses where the occupants have p!ssed on the carpet's, left rotting food around, flea ridden mattresses yes, lets leave it there..

Point is I wouldnt tarnish everyone with the same brush, but it is a fact that you will go to some place's and encounter some of these things, so don't get all hung up about it, I'm sure you live in a clean tidy house and you all wash daily and so there's no problem  

lol ok ok ok, we shouldnt have got into this, I should have kept stum  


I now draw a close to this digusting discussion

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Insert clean re-wire talk here  <----  

guys doing council rewires up here usually do about 4 houses a week


they are quick but thats about it you couldn't pay me to do that kindb of work.

and you will find plenty of the kind dingbat describede but a few wee palaces as well

[quote author=riyou  link=1107769326/0#5 date=1107978340]..our wifes are fat lazy bitches .. [/quote]
Can't be that bad, surely, or they'd get no punters...