Cable routing
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Are the cables to be concealed? If so then what will be there to signify the cable is there? Bog standard cables as installed in houses need to be in safe zones: //www.diynot.com/wiki/electrics:walls.
Surface mounting in trunking may be a way forward or installing an accessory box to signify there is something there.
Do you already have RCD protection on the circuits you are working on?
Surface mounting in trunking may be a way forward or installing an accessory box to signify there is something there.
Do you already have RCD protection on the circuits you are working on?
The fan isolator doesn't need to be in the bathroom (and, indeed, would not be allowed in certain locations within the bathroom) - which might help you to some extent.
Kind Regards, John
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if you really musr run a concealed cable the other side of the bathroom wall. you could bury it deeper than 50mm which may involve building reg issues or you could run it less than 50mm and put a blanking plate on the wall to signify the cable run in that vertical plane. depends on the esthetics you require. I should imagine it is better than a length of trunking.
You could add a socket outlet in that room and use that route as a means to legitimise the cable route for the bathroom requirements.
You could add a socket outlet in that room and use that route as a means to legitimise the cable route for the bathroom requirements.
Thanks for the replies.
RCBO protection on all circuits
Surface installlation is a no no
Could maybe install something in the adjacent room and go through wall back to back or would it be OK to maybe put a socket at low level in adjacent room but go through the wall at switch height for the shaver point using the one chase and capping?
OH, that seems to be your idea 17thman
RCBO protection on all circuits
Surface installlation is a no no
Could maybe install something in the adjacent room and go through wall back to back or would it be OK to maybe put a socket at low level in adjacent room but go through the wall at switch height for the shaver point using the one chase and capping?
OH, that seems to be your idea 17thman
No, the accessory must be associated with the cable.
Yes, but I don't see the connection.
PVC (or, indeed, metal) capping affords no protection.
That is nonsence, the cable does not need to be associated with the accessory. give me a reg and i will paypal you a tenner
No real connection to the original question, just an enquiry
No, not much protection, but unless I install metal conduit (which I'm not) would you just clip to the brickwork and plaster over?
522.6.101(v)
Nonsense though I agree it is, I'm afraid that EFLI is right ...
522.6.101(v) says:
Regs is regs, unfortunately, regardless of commonsense!
Kind Regards, John
Edit: damnit - typed too slowly again!
Yes, or oval conduit which may help should you wish to remove/replace the cable.
Plus, although I may be wrong, I got the impression that the socket was to be low and the cable would come down vertically above to a shaver socket height.
So did I, but I don't think that makes 522.6.101(v) any less silly. The whole point of 'safe zones' is surely that one has to assume that a cable (any cable) may exist anywhere in any of the safe zones created by an accessory?
Kind Regards, John
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