Rolling electrics upgrade, rather than all at once?
Discussion
Looking at an early 80s bungalow.
Assuming it's not had any major electrics for 30yrs as the vendor has been there that long. Still looks like an original 80s kitchen. Had a new boiler in the kitchen recently though.
It has an annexe with a newer looking kitchen (5-10yrs I'd say), and some newer looking bathrooms.
For all I know it could have a far newer consumer unit, I didn't look. Doh.
If I do a new kitchen diner knock-through, with new consumer unit etc, is it a case of having accessible (loft I assume) connects between old and new? So you can get to and see the swap from new wire to old wire? And also when you then later upgrade the old, you upgrade to this point, retaining the connection points?
Basically can you make sensibly placed splits and upgrade in this manner?
The building is like a big T shape with the kitchen at the mid point of three legs. I appreciate that the loops/spurs might not follow these legs.
Is there also an option at this point to have new loop logic onto a new consumer unit, so you can break areas down into smaller loops and connect as necessary?
Or is it better to start upgrading the loops and joining up with the old runs to the old consumer unit, and then finally add the new consumer unit and integrate the new loops?
I'm envisioning some kind of big interconnect thing in the loft above the kitchen/diner from which all the loops go off to their respective areas?
Assuming it's not had any major electrics for 30yrs as the vendor has been there that long. Still looks like an original 80s kitchen. Had a new boiler in the kitchen recently though.
It has an annexe with a newer looking kitchen (5-10yrs I'd say), and some newer looking bathrooms.
For all I know it could have a far newer consumer unit, I didn't look. Doh.
If I do a new kitchen diner knock-through, with new consumer unit etc, is it a case of having accessible (loft I assume) connects between old and new? So you can get to and see the swap from new wire to old wire? And also when you then later upgrade the old, you upgrade to this point, retaining the connection points?
Basically can you make sensibly placed splits and upgrade in this manner?
The building is like a big T shape with the kitchen at the mid point of three legs. I appreciate that the loops/spurs might not follow these legs.
Is there also an option at this point to have new loop logic onto a new consumer unit, so you can break areas down into smaller loops and connect as necessary?
Or is it better to start upgrading the loops and joining up with the old runs to the old consumer unit, and then finally add the new consumer unit and integrate the new loops?
I'm envisioning some kind of big interconnect thing in the loft above the kitchen/diner from which all the loops go off to their respective areas?
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