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Moving light switch to the other side of the door
I'm planning to re-hung 2 doors to open in the opposite way and want to
change the light switches to suit. They are on (very tough) brick walls, with very limited access to under floor/above ceiling, so no easy way to go about it without the need for quite major re-decoration after (which I want to avoid if at all possible...). The builder who did our extension several years ago did a similar thing at our request to another door/switch. The guy that carried out the work was a qualified electrician that the builder employed. I watched him at the time, and this is what he did: - Crimped an extension to the cable(s) from the position of the "old" switch - Chiselled/chased a shallowish (5-6cm) channel along the 15cm from the switch to be removed to the door frame. - Chased a channel along the 15cm from the door frame to the position of the new switch. - Chiselled a space for the new switch. - Temporarily removed the door's architrave - Ran the cable(s) along the channels and around the door in the gap behind the architrave to the new switch position. - Replaced architrave - Installed new switch - Plastered over chased channels old switch. Is this an acceptable solution? Does it comply with current regulation? PS: He was responsible for a lot of electrical work at the time (very substantial extension), and I was less than impressed by the quality of his work in general (part of it perhaps was the result of constantly being rushed by the builder). |
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