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Leaving awkward existing loft lighting on a rewire?

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Hi, just starting out on my own. I have a house rewire for a friend. He has a converted loft room with about 10 spotlights. Id prefer to rewire it all with new cable but it looks as though all the plasterboard would have to come down to do that. If I was to keep the existing cables and they test OK do I just note it on the EIC? Such as “Full rewire installation excluding loft lighting cables”. Can the same be done for any other circuit or section of wiring? Thanks for the help.

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    You have to decide if you are happy with the cable you will in effect re-use. Plastic cables in good order are fine for many decades, but signs of overheating, splits or damage by mice or similar would be reasons not to re-use. 

    If it is damaged then sometimes you can pull a new cable in with the old one as a draw line, practice your low profile non-lumpy knots first though.

    Remember the ‘two colours’ label if that applies, and don't get blacks and blues tangled.

    Mainly cable re-use is a perfectly sensible and  ‘green’ thing to be doing, so long as the current ratings and conditions are appropriate.

    Mike.

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    You have to decide if you are happy with the cable you will in effect re-use. Plastic cables in good order are fine for many decades, but signs of overheating, splits or damage by mice or similar would be reasons not to re-use. 

    If it is damaged then sometimes you can pull a new cable in with the old one as a draw line, practice your low profile non-lumpy knots first though.

    Remember the ‘two colours’ label if that applies, and don't get blacks and blues tangled.

    Mainly cable re-use is a perfectly sensible and  ‘green’ thing to be doing, so long as the current ratings and conditions are appropriate.

    Mike.

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