rewiring

LaLyn

Hi All,
Have to say thank you to everyone, really finding the site useful for tips and ideas whilst renovating my house.
The house I'm renovating is an old cottage (100 years old) with an extension built around the 60's. My question (could be a blonde question though) is can rewiring be done in different stages, ie the extension first and the original cottage at a later date?
thanks a mil, L

Pete67

I don't see why not. Get a new consumer unit installed beside the old fuseboard and supplied from it, then run the new circuits for the extension from the new CU. At a later date you can get the rest of the house rewired from the new consumer unit and eventually remove the old fuseboard altogether.

It would probably be cheaper to do it all in one go though.

cossworxenergy

yup what pete says. Would agree do the whole lot at once. Cheaper buying cable in bulk etc.

LaLyn

Thanks a mil for the replies, I'll probably go ahead and do it in stages but have the electrician purchase all the cabling etc up front. Thanks again. L

Stoner

If its a difficult/long run from the extension to the main fuseboard it might be well worth your while having the separate consumer unit (fuse board). This can also be handy from a protection of cable point of view depending on the approach.

But as the lads said above, its not a big deal either way it just depends on the approach of the builder TBH. The electrician could rewire the whole house and simply have a cable ready to go to pop through to the extension if there was a delay in the building.