Wiring Progress

We are starting to get close with our wiring: We have power points and lights in the entry hall, pantry, guest bedroom, shower room, bathroom, laundry and toilet. In addition to that, we have the start of the cabling for the kitchen, main bedroon, and salon in place.

This has used a lot of cable: so far we have used over 500 metres of cable, and on Tuesday we bought another 200 metres. We hope this will do us.

We have dozens of these junction boxes. Where
we have room to make the cabling tidy, it's tidy.

The main reason we have used so much cable is because of the walls of the house, and where the doors have been installed. Having stone walls almost a metre thick means that the best way of getting power into a room is through bypassing the walls as much as possible.

This is why to get power for the powerpoints from the fuseboard to the main bedroom (which is only 1.5 metres as the mosquito flies) we had to go through 3 floors and 3 walls, for a total wire run of about 20 metres.

How to move electricity a very short distance.
From the fuseboard under the stairs to the bedroom.

Another consideration is just how many power points you need in a modern house. For a computer and it's associated gubbins you need 5 or 6 powerpoints: that is one complete circuit that needs to be run from the fuseboard.

One of the cables at the back of this photo
ends up in the bedroom.

Yesterday's little luxury was installing a light on the staircase that we can turn on and off from the top and bottom. As long as we give ourselves these treats occasionally, we feel we are making progress.

Simon