Saturday, 15 November 2014

Have we seen the light?

I've been instructing today but Alan's been scratching his head over the lighting & electrical scheme. What lights where? What sockets where? What switches where? And where do you put the light switches when it's all open plan and so you have no walls?!!!??? Anyone done this and got any advice? Meanwhile, the big budget question - should we rely on the market giving us a competitive price or should we commission a quantity surveyor to tell us how much they should be quoting?
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  1. PW16 November 2014 at 00:08

    Twice as many sockets as you think. Cat 5 or 6 in every room, satellite cable (double) to appropriate places (possibly more places than you expect) or at least run plastic conduit so it can be fed through easily later.
    Light switches where you will enter/leave the open plan areas, multiple switches if necessary.
    You could probably have remote controlled light switches if you had to - but then you have the problem of knowing where the remote is !

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