House rewire on a house we are about to buy

[XiJ]

Never thought about putting cat6 throughout the house. If i were to do that would need to make sure the main point is in a reasonable location. Now-a-days though its pretty easy just to buy the powerline kits.

 

Yep, power line is ok - subject to your wiring being ok lol

 

In our old house every time we decorated a room I chased out a wall, put trunking in and ran cat5. In this new build I'm going to run cat6. And will eventually have some cameras / wireless using PoE. Doesn't take up power sockets then either. Cat5/6 is incredible useful I find!

[Andrew_C]

By the looks of the wiring, it looks like it has never been rewired. By the side of the domino fuse box there is some fuse wire which looks like it goes into the box. The electrician couldnt get ring on the neutral. One of the findings came back as a C2. If we were to put a new db in it would keep triping the fuses.

I think you may either be mangling what you are told, or being fed bull excrement.

 

That said, a rewire on a 40 year old house may not be out of order, but I'll put good money on thee being nothing like enough sockets around. My place is a similar age and at a rough count we have a dozen 4/6 way extensions in use!

 

Don't forget that since the advent of "Part taking the P" you have to have a professional electrician do the work, or inspect it. Well, you don't; one of the directors of the firm has to be in the "right club"; or you can have it inspected by building control form the LA.