Clip rails for wires?

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in underfloor heating systems, one option for securing the pipes to the floor is to lay a long plastic strip that is a series of U shaped clips. You then push the pipe into whatever U clip is most convenient for your desired spacing. They look like this

I'd dearly love to know whether they exist for wires, he reason being I've installed an airtight membrane to my walls and must now fasten several or many wires to the walls. I'd rather just have one or two screws holding a clip rail and then clip all the wires in, than having the normal nail in wire clips, as that means hundreds of holes in the membrane..

Alternatively, any suggestions for clipping wires up in a service void, without ruining the membrane?
 
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Cant say ive seen them, years ago there was plastic clips, I think Fischer made them and they had a top that clipped onto the bottom, but were for 20 and 25mm conduit, im not sure if they clipped side to side, to make a run.

www.fischer.co.uk/PortalData/10/.../6.Electrical_Fixings...

I can only think of fixing something first with less fixings, then fixing the cables to that, in the days of pyro we used a pvc coated strapping with holes in, dont recall the name though
 
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Trunking or conduit glued to walls would seem easy way out. You can get trunking with adhesive already applied, these do tend to fall off so normally once stuck in place I use corkin which one makes them look better and two stops them falling off the wall latter.
 
PBOD, can you link to something like what you mean? If I google for variations on "heat matts" I just get electric underfloor heating..

ericmark, what is "corkin" ?

I've considered glue and sticky backed things but I've a concern that they'll only fall off in time, possibly taking a chunk of air tightness membrane with it

Right now, I'm considering to use those plastic comb things that you occasionally find sheets of A4 bound together with to make booklets (kinda like the metal loops the on-site guide is bound together with). If I screw them to the wall so they hang vertically I'll have a set of horizontal slots into which I can push a wire.
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I could then also drop something (like a cable tie) down the front of the comb loops to stop wires coming out again. Are there any regulations that would stop me from using them?
 
Could you use a length of 3core + earth with a clout nail into the wall at each end? Hold all the cables back with this...
 
I'm a bit puzzled by the quandary; surely the building can't be anything out of the ordinary.

Did you mean an 'airtight' membrane or a 'breathable waterproof' one?

What is the finished wall going to be?
 
Efli, membrane is both.. And I have to fix through it

Wall is a 140 stud timber frame
 

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