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Default Rewire Lighting Circuits

mark harrison wrote:

Thankyou for the replies Gents. I understand what you say Dave, but to
be told that your wiring circuit is unsafe as it was put to us was a
cause of concern. Thats why the wife and I went into panic mode and
made the presumption that it was something that we could not do
ourselves.


Do you believe everything you're told?

The wiring is PVC coated 2 core,


so theres no reason to think its disintegrating.

so running an external earth wire
could do the trick as Christian inferred ?
Getting to the upstairs lighting would be fine from the loft space,
ground floor ceiling lighs would be accessed by lifting floor boards in
the bedrooms , but what would we do about wall lights (would they need
chasing out ??)
Thats something that we can do ourselves and would undertake.

Thanks for the replies

Regards

Mark


Youre not listening Mark. Do you have metal light switches? Do you have
metal light fittings that are not double insulated, ie with no [[]]
symbol? If the answer is no to both those, then adding an earth will
achieve absolutely nothing.

I'm presuming this isnt bell wire... its been known.


NT