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The future of residential building electrical installations

Arran Cameron
This is a spin-off from the discussion What is the best way to wire ceiling lights.


What do you think is the future of residential building electrical installations in 20 to 30 years time? Will they in modern and modernised houses be significantly different from what they are today or will they most likely be barely changed from what they are today?


Will consumer demand be a driving force for change or will electricians only make changes from the status quo in order to comply with updated wiring regs?
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    One of my long standing customers was having a block of four flats built, the planners insisted that there had to be a chimney on the roof. I tried to persuade him to get a Fibreglass chimney just to sit on the top of the trusses.


    Instead he had the brick layers built one sitting on top of the gable wall, whilst the scaffolding was still up I said I hope they have filled the chimney pot up to the top with mortar and rounded it over to stop it filling up with water, he replied “I don’t think they have, but it will be alright”.


    A few weeks later there was a debate going on as to how you could get someone forty odd feet up in the air to try and drill some holes around the base of the chimney pot to let the water out or fill it up.


    The planners and designers do like to include completely functionless traditional features that in the long run just become a nuisance.


     Andy Betteridge
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    One of my long standing customers was having a block of four flats built, the planners insisted that there had to be a chimney on the roof. I tried to persuade him to get a Fibreglass chimney just to sit on the top of the trusses.


    Instead he had the brick layers built one sitting on top of the gable wall, whilst the scaffolding was still up I said I hope they have filled the chimney pot up to the top with mortar and rounded it over to stop it filling up with water, he replied “I don’t think they have, but it will be alright”.


    A few weeks later there was a debate going on as to how you could get someone forty odd feet up in the air to try and drill some holes around the base of the chimney pot to let the water out or fill it up.


    The planners and designers do like to include completely functionless traditional features that in the long run just become a nuisance.


     Andy Betteridge
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