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when plastering over a rewire are the cables ment too be cased in a cover or not
im you can get the plastic ones or metal ones as i was told by a spark that the plasterover time eats away at the wire cover
 
steve cov said:
it aint your (french word)in problem mate. fill it and (french word)ing skim it.
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depends, on new build for example if anything went wrong its chased back to who covered up the problem so hed become a scape goat. They should really be cased.
 
steve cov said:
boll.ocks to that. if i'm told to plaster it, it aint my problem.
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I hear what yer sayin and agree but if anything happened their not gonna take the blame are they. Theyll just say they were going to trunk it but you got there first and covered it when you should have pointed it out and left it. Its just a gamble that you take but Im sure officially it should be trunked. Correct me if Im wrong (by fact not opinion). :)
 
Agree with Brucey. Always tell them before you plaster over it, then you know you've covered your ass ;)
 
Yeh but what if they say you never mentioned it ;) Yeh should have trunking on oit but to be honest it aint your problem if you plaster it unless your trowel catches it :)
 
thanks for that carping, i've been plastering since i left school and never seen some capping. always wondered what it looked like
 
steve cov said:
thanks for that carping, i've been plastering since i left school and never seen some capping. always wondered what it looked like
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is that what that is! its always in the bloody way, usually I just tw*t them flat with me hammer or get the old snippy snip snips on the job ;D
 
essexandy said:
I've been told recently that the cables no longer need capping on new builds due to the use of RCD's.
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I stand corrected then. Unless ......was that opinion or official. What about in older houses. Say your doin a knock off back to brick ,what about in that case?
 
I was told by the last firm I worked for on new builds, they did cap the cables when I said I'd prefer them to but said building regs no longer required it. If a property is being re-wired it would also have a new consumer unit with RCDs so I would assume that the same rules would apply. But just bear in mind that builders are a load of lieing barstewards.
 
essexandy said:
I was told by the last firm I worked for on new builds, they did cap the cables when I said I'd prefer them to but said building regs no longer required it. If a property is being re-wired it would also have a new consumer unit with RCDs so I would assume that the same rules would apply. But just bear in mind that builders are a load of lieing barstewards.
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True and their also tight! Do you reckon they'd pay out for trunkin no matter how cheap and spend the time fixing it if it wasnt even slightly necessary?
 
georgemealy75 said:
steve cov said:
it aint your (french word)in problem mate. fill it and (french word)ing skim it.
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execellent attitude ;)
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i'm all for doing the job properly george but i've had that many sparks leave cappings bulging out or wires hanging out the box, if they cant do their job properly then i'm not doing it for them.
 
Bruce Willis said:
essexandy said:
I was told by the last firm I worked for on new builds, they did cap the cables when I said I'd prefer them to but said building regs no longer required it. If a property is being re-wired it would also have a new consumer unit with RCDs so I would assume that the same rules would apply. But just bear in mind that builders are a load of lieing barstewards.
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True and their also tight! Do you reckon they'd pay out for trunkin no matter how cheap and spend the time fixing it if it wasnt even slightly necessary?
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They only did as I asked because they really wanted me to do their work, they hadn't used it on their previous hundred houses.
 
essexandy said:
Bruce Willis said:
essexandy said:
I was told by the last firm I worked for on new builds, they did cap the cables when I said I'd prefer them to but said building regs no longer required it. If a property is being re-wired it would also have a new consumer unit with RCDs so I would assume that the same rules would apply. But just bear in mind that builders are a load of lieing barstewards.
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True and their also tight! Do you reckon they'd pay out for trunkin no matter how cheap and spend the time fixing it if it wasnt even slightly necessary?
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They only did as I asked because they really wanted me to do their work, they hadn't used it on their previous hundred houses.
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fair enough.
 
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