Rewiring a property

Question

Can one rewire a property without pulling the floorboards up?

Hugh · Accepted Answer

You can rewire a property without pulling the floorboards up.
It depends if you want the cables hidden ie. chased into the wall or surface with mini trunking.
but lifting the floorboards here and there saves you a lot of chasing out walls.
It really depends what way you want to go about it.

Nozmul · Answer

There are two ways of wiring a property by taking floor boards up or by taking ceilings down as you will need to wire through floor/roof  joists to take wires from on side to the other.

Ryan · Answer

Yes but it will come down to cost etc how this is achieved

Bill · Answer

To wire lights the cables have to go under floor or above the ceiling so it’s either lift the floor boards or make holes in the ceiling 
Or run all wires on the surface

Benjamin · Answer

Hi there.. yes you could do this but would need to pull down the ceiling instead. You could also make holes in the ceiling & patch up afterwards but then have to very careful where you are running the cables, keeping them away from hot water pipes etc. Hope this helps.

Mick · Answer

If it is a house you would either have to go floor ceiling or trunking, but the floor is the best option

Matt · Answer

Yes you can do it by cutting channels out of the ceiling but obviously this will require patch up work. Or you can rewire in surface trunking which would create the least damage and very little patch up work but would be slightly more expensive. It depends if tru king bothers you, most people don't like it

Adrian · Answer

Floorboards have to be pulled up to route cables through joists especially in double story properties.

Martin · Answer

Hi depends weather it’s a house or bungalow,if it’s a house no you can’t

Sydney · Answer

Not possible as you need to run cables from one place to the other

Rewiring a property

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