8 SIGNS THAT YOUR HOUSE MAY NEED AN REWIRE - watch this before contacting an electrician

Rewiring a house is an expensive and disruptive process. In this video, we explore the telltale signs which indicate that your home may need to be rewired.

This series has been produced to educate homeowners about the electrical systems within their home.

The content reflects wiring types and situations found in UK homes - rewiring a house uk.

== 🕐 Time Stamps - Cut to the action 🕕 ==
00:00 Does my house need rewiring?
00:44 Why does my house need rewiring?
01:24 Look at the fusebox
02:00 Sockets and switches
02:57 Cables
03:51 Earth connections
05:00 Cable insulation and damage
05:18 Cable colours
06:00 Rodent damage - rats and mice chewing cables
06:40 Convenience - do you have enough sockets
07:14 Always speak to an approved electrician.

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[grahammatthew]

Thank you for an unbiased and informative vide on this subject.

[rajveersamra]

Extremely useful video. Just recently purchased a house and this has helped figure out whether to rewire or not.

[zethcrownett]

Hi Joe,
Im a mechanical engineering student with an interest in robotics, even though I don't yet own a house, I really appreciate the information and knowledge you're putting out

[johnoreilly]

Hi Joe thanks for sharing your video with me and other videos and for some tips on improving the electrics

[andrewwatson]

Thats a good video to show customers to help them choose, or to bad you up if they don’t need a upgrade is someone has previously done an eicr and condemned the installation because of a plastic consumer unit etc

[eddprice]

Ah Joe I recognise that 3036 board 🤣. The dreaded fairy liquid is another indication of the cabling deteriorate (cable cancer) Great video Joe 👍

[SVA]

Sometimes DIY Dave does a better job than a qualified spark

[essdee]

Another clue that's going to help you in deciding about a rewire that hasn't been mentioned is to remove a light switch and check for a CPC..
Alot of older houses were wired without a CPC in the lighting circuit...

[terrytamblyn]

Good god this video makes me feel old, we used VIR cable when I served my time back in the early 60s with buckle clips, in fact there were still drums of unused lead 3029 and 7029 on the shelf of our stores they weighed a ton.

[TheManLab]

I started my apprenticeship 2004, so it's all I've ever known.
I worked with a couple of people who did their apprenticeship when everything was Red Yellow Blue n Black.
Aaaanyway.
There was one job where we had to install a single phase supply, to an outside cabin at a foil printing company which back then was called "G & A printers"

So the supply was a 3c armoured and I told him countless times that you can't use the black for the neutral. He didn't listen to me and he ended up using the grey for the earth when it should be the neutral.

When I went back to the office, I brought it up in the conversation and they told him that you need to learn the new colour's. Because if someone swapped it back to what it should be, then the neutral currently will be going through the earth bar.

I'm NOT a grass by any means but I just HAD to make sure that the office told him. All the qualified sparks normally ask the apprentices because they know what's going on n how to do new stuff.


Anyway
Rant over

[SadAnorak]

Sensible list here. As an domestic electrician I am regularly called out by customers to find a fault and discover one bad cable through testing. However the customer tells me that a previous electrician had visited, removed the RCD and advised a full rewire - which would have been totally unnecessary.

[alpachino]

4:27 I had a solar installation electrician wire in our new panels. Whilst we were having a conversation about earthing my data cabinet, I referred to the 'earth' as the 'CPC' and the electrician had a 'this guy's a right smart-arse' look on his face instead of being impressed 😭

[bernardcharlesworth]

All good points but the house supply cable could be from the 1930s and the road cables could be DC concentric from 1920s.

[DoctorElectricYouTube]

brilliant video Joe, I will show this to my customers that I suggest need rewires

[paultipton]

I went to investigate a lighting circuit fault today at a housing association property and found the tenant had installed and wired down lights with metal switches, all the cpc's had been cutoff at the switches. A light in a store cupboard had a T+E cable just going across the ceiling between walls suspended in the air!
Its also the home owners tenants who mess around is another reason for a rewire

[jmohammad]

Thanks Joe for the video it was more like the 8 electrical commandments in deciding whether to rewire or not. Very important 8 points highlighted. Great to see you sharing your knowledge. Thumbs up like always 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[seandempsey]

Fantastic video Joe and some very useful information. But,
Ref BS7671 page 13 health and safety executives note, installations which conform to the standards laid down in BS7671 2008 +A3 : 2015 are regarded likely to achieve conformity installations installed to earlier standards, w de ft


Does not mean that they will fail to achieve conformity with the relevant parts of the electricity at work regulations 1989.

As a tip if the line conductor is a nice bright red and the earth sleve is green and yellow it probably dates from the mid seventys, if the line is a brownish red and the earth is sleeved in green it is before the seventys as for the fuse box if there is no sign of damage or exposed conductive parts or signs of over heating then it is considered safe for continued service as long as your test are to 18th edition of the wiring regulations. But with no RCD protection I would recommend the fuse box be replaced.
Thank you for a fantastic video

[brianwood]

Nice one Joe. Well explained. #StaySafe

[danmorris]

As always amazing videos keep up the great work

[paultipton]

At a local pub owned by same family for generations there are mixture of the round Bakelite switches, 80s style sockets & surface buckle clip cables & Fluorescent lights with the thick lamps in the main public bar area.
Makes me wonder what the rest is like.