One of the most important points in the repair of the apartment is to correctly dismantle the old wiring and lay a new one. It is better to entrust this responsible business to professionals, because laying the wiring is associated with the risk of life. But if you are confident in your abilities and decided to lay the wiring yourself, that is, a few tips that may help you with this.
You need to start with the choice of a suitable cable brand for you. Usually, any cable each of the veins should have one -vein. The following cable brands are suitable for the house: NYM, VVGNG, PUNP. A very important characteristic of the cross -section of the wire and the number of cores. Depending on where you lay the wiring, you need to select the appropriate cable. For sockets, the cable cross section should be at least 2.5 square millimeters, for lighting, a cable with a cross section of 1.5 mm is suitable, for electric plates the cable should have a section of at least 4 mm.
After you have selected a suitable cable, you need to select an electric switch.
The main requirement for circuit breakers is reliability, you should not save on them and buy cheap Chinese, since it is on the switches that safety in your house depends.
Before you start work, on laying the wiring, think about where you will have sockets, switches, how the cable will go, and be sure to draw up the circuit and adhere to it during work.
It is better to place sockets from the floor at a distance of 20-25 cm, switches-80-90 cm. The most time -consuming work is the laying of the electrical wiring in the walls, for this you will have to post the walls. To do this, you will need a perforator and a grinder with a diamond disk, and also do not forget the respirator and glasses, since there will be a lot of dirt and dust when tap. All wires for lighting are better to lay on the ceiling, and for the technology on the floor. Do not forget to hide all the wires in a corrugated tube.
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