A little bit about electrical stuff

My regular readers will know my little icon on Google Chat is often green which tends to result in a lot of conversations with online friends, and today I had one with a friend who likes to talk about renovating homes since that's what he's doing, and strangely enough its what I used to do.

An even weirder coincidence is that he's renovating a turn of the century wooden house in the US, almost exactly the kind of house I've renovated.

Anyhow we got to talking about wiring, light fixtures, power points, that sort of thing. Luckily for him I've been there and done that so I know what he's talking about, I understand that rewiring an old house can be a significant expense and you need to plan exactly where the various fittings are going to go before your get an electrician to fit the wiring.

If you've ever renovated an old wooden house you'll know that they often have a lot of really inefficient and ugly fixtures that were put in during the 1950's, and of course the first thing you want to do is replace with with some nice looking fittings that can take modern energy efficient bulbs.

Now I happen to know a few of my readers are renovating houses so take a look at this electrical supplies website, they pretty much have everything and I'm not going to link to every page but we were looking through the progress lighting and metal plates categories and both agreed this stuff looks nice and surprisingly its more affordable than you'd expect.

The great advantage of dealing with timber houses of course is that they are a lot easier to work with than brick or concrete and rewiring a house to take advantage of ceiling and wall lights, but I don't miss the work and effort involved.