is it ok to run a mains cable alongside a carpet gripper?
2.5mm twin & earth along carpet gripper
- Thread starter steveo44
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Run your hand along the carpet gripper and you will answer your own question 
It is a bad idear as if the cable moves and gets caught in the spikes, it will make a big bang and you will need the carpet re streching to get it to fit properly again.
You can get skirting board for cable to run in.
It is a bad idear as if the cable moves and gets caught in the spikes, it will make a big bang and you will need the carpet re streching to get it to fit properly again.
You can get skirting board for cable to run in.
Run your hand along the carpet gripper and you will answer your own question
It is a bad idear as if the cable moves and gets caught in the spikes, it will make a big bang and you will need the carpet re streching to get it to fit properly again.
You can get skirting board for cable to run in.
What if the cable is clipped to the floor 5mm from the gripper?
P
Paul_C
As in clipped to the floorboards next to the carpet strips? No - You don't want cable running along floors under carpets where it will be liable to be damaged.
I agree it is not ideal. The room is on the ground floor and the floor is of some solid material, not concrete but hard. Less likely to damaged than an extension lead if the cable is clipped every nine inches. Its only for one socket three meters away.
A
Alarm
Then run it in horizontally the wall.
The house has recently been refurbished to a high spec, i don't think 2.5mm t&t would go down well.
Then either chase it into the wall and repair it properly or don't do the job. You cannot run power cables under carpet.
The cable WILL wear away over time and then
BANG
or
FIRE
or maybe a kiddie will slide his hand under the carpet and find some nice bare wires.
BANG
or
FIRE
or maybe a kiddie will slide his hand under the carpet and find some nice bare wires.
yet sockets were not fitted where they were needed? Was it actually rewired?
Either way, the options are
1. Surface clipped cable
2. Surface cable in mini trunking, decorative or otherwise
3. Chase into the wall, plaster over and redecorate.
H
holmslaw
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Metal tipped stilletto heeled shoe would be a serious hazard to a cable under carpet.
do NOT run cable under carpet.
do NOT run cable under carpet.
This may be an obvious question:
What is the floor made of? If its wood then lift the floor and run the cable underneath.
What is the floor made of? If its wood then lift the floor and run the cable underneath.
Poured resin?
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