Wir haben ein seriöses Unternehmen beauftragt, Kabel und Pfeifen für einen Küchenzug in unserer Wohnung in East Oslo zu betreiben. Ich bin im Allgemeinen unzufrieden mit der Qualität der Arbeit, obwohl sie teuer und von einem seriösen Unternehmen ist. Sie haben zurückgedrängt, Änderungen vorzunehmen. Ich bin ein Ausländer, kann also nicht sagen, ob ich das falsche Ergebnis erwarte oder nicht. Sie renovierten auch unser Badezimmer und haben mit dieser Arbeit gute Arbeit geleistet.
Ich habe das Gefühl, dass die Kabel in der Wand vergraben oder besser versteckt werden sollten.
Ich verstehe, dass Kabel an den Außenseite der Wände an älteren Gebäuden hier häufiger sind (es ist nicht dort, von dem ich komme), also weiß ich nicht genau, wie es aussehen sollte, wenn sie einen Elektriker bezahlen, um hereinzukommen.
https://www.reddit.com/gallery/1kbsff7
Von No_Garbage1526
10 Kommentare
Yes this looks normal.
You can’t run cables in the wall if the wall was not built with tubes for running cables in them.
Unless you want to pay an arm and a leg to redo the walls in order to put the cables in them.
I’d say it depends on what you agreed on in the work order. It will be impossible to bury the cables in the wall without removing the wooden paneling and gypsum walls, and they probably should have told you beforehand.
I wont say I know 100% but unless they have access to the studs to lay cables this is the best you are gonna get. And honestly the amount of cable they needed and the way they did it isn’t half bad. It’s quite the task to get it all 100% flush and straight with that amount.
But as stated, I could be wrong.
No, that is not the level of craftmanship you should expect from an electrician. The cables should laid much neater than that. Open cabeling is to be expected in an old building unless you instruct them to lay them hidden, but that will be a lot more expencive.
Burying the cables in the wall would have involved a lot more work. The second photo looks like the wall is made of brick, if so burying them there would be difficult. Even with the wooden wall you’d need a carpenter as well as an electrician, and then it would all need repainting.
You could have got all that but the work would need to be discussed and specified in advance. A reputable company shouldn’t do work that the client didn’t request. When hiring contractors you should get what you asked for.
If you are really lucky it is protected building and you can’t hide them in the wall. But the work looks OK, and as the other post said hiding them is expensive.
It’s not unusual to have visible wires. Looking at your ceiling it seems like it’s an older house. Newer houses usually have „cable gates“ (I don’t know what to call it in English) inside the walls. In older homes it would be a bitch to rip down the walls to make them invisible. You could always hire a contractor to do it inside the walls, but it would (in my opinion) be unnecessarily expensive.
I had a similar situation going in our house we bought (also Norway), where this was already in place when we moved in.
I asked an electrician, and he said it was sloppy but not against regulations or anything. In our case they had the opportunity to run the cables in the roof or inside the wall.
I wouldn’t have accepted exposed wires if I were you, because it seems like the company you hired do more than just electrical wiring if they renovated your bathroom as well. Meaning they have the skill and opportunity help the electrician conceal the wires either in the wall, roof or cable trunking along the wall. They can do better than exposed wires.
That looks terrible. While it may not be possible to run them inside the wall (old houses are not designed for that) there are other ways to conceal them that looks way better, and the way they ran them through the wall does not look right. I doubt these were certified electricians.
Cables on the outside is normal if you dont pay to remove and redo it all.
But as an electrician this is honestly really shit handywork.
No effort in making neat bends, fasteners not in line or staggered.
No straight parts on any cable.
Thickest cable has fasteners made for pipes.
Shit job, done fast.
2/10.