I've tried searching on this topic but haven't found any specific answers.
I am currently re-wiring a very old stone farmhouse (there's another story here for another topic, but anyway...) the wife wants the walls in the lounge to be pointed (with lime mortar). They are all random rubblestone apart from one stud partition.
Most of the wiring for entertainment, network, coax etc will end up in that partition but our dilemma is the rest of the power requirements.
How do I run cables for power, light switches, wall lights etc. Most trunking looks awful, I've suggested using copper pipe as trunking or even black galv trunking but she's having none of it. It's a total re-fit, so we could put extra deep skirting but do regs 'frown' upon sockets in skirting and cable behind skirting.
I presume that I can't run the cable in the stone joints before pointing as the cable it unlikely to run straight up or down and probably exceed the 150mm 'safe zone'.
Does anyone have any experience of this?
I am currently re-wiring a very old stone farmhouse (there's another story here for another topic, but anyway...) the wife wants the walls in the lounge to be pointed (with lime mortar). They are all random rubblestone apart from one stud partition.
Most of the wiring for entertainment, network, coax etc will end up in that partition but our dilemma is the rest of the power requirements.
How do I run cables for power, light switches, wall lights etc. Most trunking looks awful, I've suggested using copper pipe as trunking or even black galv trunking but she's having none of it. It's a total re-fit, so we could put extra deep skirting but do regs 'frown' upon sockets in skirting and cable behind skirting.
I presume that I can't run the cable in the stone joints before pointing as the cable it unlikely to run straight up or down and probably exceed the 150mm 'safe zone'.
Does anyone have any experience of this?