New house wiring: the order the work goes in

PILONE CABLES TECHNICAL TEAM

Plan the conduit early and buy the wire late. Conduit and boxes go in before the concrete and before the plaster; the wire is ordered once the conduit is finished and can be measured.

Until the conduit is run, nobody can say honestly how much wire the house needs. After the plaster is closed, nothing about the layout can be changed without breaking a wall.

Naye ghar ki wiring: stage by stage

On a new house in Pakistan the conduit is planned early and the wire is bought late: point marking, the conduit route and the board position are fixed before the slab is poured and before the walls are plastered, while the wire itself is ordered once the conduit is complete and measurable. Buying wire at the start ties cash into a commodity that moves daily and leaves coils sitting on an open site; planning the conduit at the end means chasing walls you have already paid to finish.

Approved layout, then point marking

Walls up, nothing cast. Every switch, socket, fan, AC and geyser position marked on the wall and agreed by whoever will live in the house. This is the cheapest hour of the whole job.

Slab conduit, before the pour

Pipe and ceiling boxes tied into the reinforcement before the concrete goes in. Miss this and every ceiling point afterwards becomes a surface run down a finished wall.

Wall chasing and back boxes

After block work, before plaster. The distribution board position and how many spare ways it will carry are settled here, along with the route from the meter to the board.

Plaster: the deadline

Once the plaster closes, the layout is decided. Walk the house with the electrician and check every marked point against the conduit before the trowel comes out.

Measure, count, order

The conduit is now measurable and the points are countable, so the wire order stops being a guess. This is when to ask for the day's rate, not six months earlier.

Pull, terminate, test

Wire pulled through the conduit, board fitted and labelled, earth electrode installed, circuits tested, and only then the connection application and the fittings.

What the conduit makes permanent

Wire can be pulled out and replaced for the price of the wire. Conduit cannot — it is cast into a slab or buried under plaster, and changing it means breaking the house. So the decisions worth arguing about on a new build are the ones the conduit locks in.

Where the distribution board sits, and how many spare ways it carries. Central beats convenient: every circuit run is measured from it. A board with no spare ways is how two appliances end up sharing one breaker.
AC and geyser positions, with their isolators. These are dedicated circuits back to the board, and they are the ones people forget until the unit arrives.
A spare conduit to the roof. Solar, a water pump, a stair light, a camera — the roof route gets used sooner than anyone expects, and it is free to lay now.
A spare conduit for data. Internet and CCTV cable do not share a pipe with power comfortably. One extra empty pipe to the lounge and the roof settles it.
The earth electrode position and the route from it to the board, agreed before the ground is finished.
A draw wire left in every empty conduit. An empty pipe with no draw wire in it is a pipe you will have to chase for anyway.

New house wiring is a full electrical installation, not a single cable size. Have a licensed electrician design the circuit layout, confirm the point schedule and the board, and test the installation before it is energised.

Where the quantities and sizes live

This page is the sequence, not the bill. Once the conduit is in and the points are counted, take the numbers from the guide that matches your plot — each one carries its own coil list, its own point schedule and its own main-cable run.

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At the measuring and ordering stage, work your own point count through the method and worksheet on how much cable a house needs, then settle which size belongs on which circuit from the chart on single-phase cable size. Once the meter position is fixed and the electrician's quote arrives, the run from the meter to the board is sized on WAPDA meter cable size, and per-point and per-square-foot labour rates sit on cable installation cost.

Frequently asked

Naye ghar ki wiring kab shuru karein?

Wiring ka pehla kaam concrete se pehle hota hai: chhat ki slab dalne se pehle conduit pipe aur ceiling boxes reinforcement ke saath bandh diye jate hain. Deewaron ki chasing aur back boxes plaster se pehle. Wire ki khareed sab se aakhir mein, jab conduit mukammal ho aur naap liya ja sake.

Should house wiring be done before or after plaster?

Both, in that order. Conduit, back boxes and the board opening go in before the plaster, because they are what the plaster is closing over. The wire itself is pulled through that conduit after the plaster has dried, so the coils are never sitting on a wet, open site while other trades work around them.

When should I buy the wire for a new house?

Once the conduit is finished and the points are countable. Before that, any quantity is a guess. Copper cable is priced off the day's copper rate, so an order placed months early is priced on a market that has since moved, and the coils have to be stored and guarded on site in the meantime.

Kya wiring se pehle meter lagwana zaroori hai?

Nahi. Meter ki application aam tor par baad mein hoti hai, magar meter se distribution board tak ka raasta ab tay karna hai — kyunke woh bhi conduit hai aur plaster ke neeche chala jayega. Meter ki jagah aur us tak ka route layout par mark karwa lein.

What if the layout changes after the conduit is laid?

Leave yourself the room now. A draw wire in every empty conduit, one spare pipe to the roof, one for data, and spare ways in the board are what let a house absorb a change later. Without them the only options are breaking plaster or running cable on the surface.

Cable for the whole house, at the factory rate

We draw the copper in Lahore and sell it at the day's rate — no dealer margin. Send the coil list and your city once the conduit is measured: Punjab in 1–2 days, rest of Pakistan in 2–4.

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