Can you use a blanking plate (fixed to a patress box obviously) to show a vertical cable run down a wall? It's the cable that supplies lighting to the attic and it's passes up one if the bedroom walls in an area where there are no switches or sockets.
Others will be along to confirm but I believe this is OK. Personally though I think it'd look a bit naff - is there no other way you can achieve the same result? I'd even be tempted to put a socket in to be honest, but I guess if it's hidden by furniture then it's probably, at least aesthetically acceptable.
Indeed. If one is fanatical about complying with regulations and does not mind introducing an 'unnecessary joint' (technically impairing the 'safety' of the installation) then I think one can probably achieve compliance by cutting the cable and joining the cut ends in a connector block (or Wagos, or whatever) within the back box - daft though that may sound.
Indeed. If one is fanatical about complying with regulations and does not mind introducing an 'unnecessary joint' (technically impairing the 'safety' of the installation) then I think one can probably achieve compliance by cutting the cable and joining the cut ends in a connector block (or Wagos, or whatever) within the back box - daft though that may sound.
No. 522.6.202 does not refer only to accessories. It refers to a cable connected to a "point, accessory or switchgear" - and I reckon that a connector block counts as a 'point' (to which the cable is connected), don't you?
Yes, you're right, I should have checked first. I wonder what they meant by a "point"? Oh, hang on, it's "A termination of the fixed wiring intended for the connection of current-using equipment".
Yes, you're right, I should have checked first. I wonder what they meant by a "point"? Oh, hang on, it's "A termination of the fixed wiring intended for the connection of current-using equipment". Hmm...
I agree- it's not ideal, but it's not my house ir my installation. I'm helping a friend with some plastering and this is how the electrician has left it. There is a socket on the same wall about 2 meters to the left. I was going to put the blanking plate inline with the cable and horizontal to the socket
I agree- it's not ideal, but it's not my house ir my installation. I'm helping a friend with some plastering and this is how the electrician has left it. There is a socket on the same wall about 2 meters to the left. I was going to put the blanking plate inline with the cable and horizontal to the socket
Regulations aside, I would personally say that what you are proposing is 'reasonable', provided that the cable actually passes through the back box to which the blank plate is attached. If the cable didn't go through the box, someone who didn't like the look of the blank plate could remove it, and the back box, and fill the hole with plaster. I think that would be more-or-less within the spirit, if not teh word, of the regulations.
If the cable didn't go through the box, someone who didn't like the look of the blank plate could remove it, and the back box, and fill the hole with plaster.
If the cable went through the box, someone who didn't like the look of the blank plate could remove it, and fill the back box with plaster.
If the cable went through the box, and in there it had been cut and the cut ends joined in a connector block (or Wagos, or whatever), someone who didn't like the look of the blank plate could remove it, and fill the back box with plaster.
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