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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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    mapj1: 
    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.

    I solder the new and old live conductors together with an overlapping joint, then just enough tape to prevent the edge of the sheath getting stuck. With this method I don't have to worry about a knot coming undone.

    From the sound of it, the cables will just be lying on the insulation (assuming that there is some) so it may be fairly easy to thread new cables through.

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    mapj1: 
    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.

    I solder the new and old live conductors together with an overlapping joint, then just enough tape to prevent the edge of the sheath getting stuck. With this method I don't have to worry about a knot coming undone.

    From the sound of it, the cables will just be lying on the insulation (assuming that there is some) so it may be fairly easy to thread new cables through.

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