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Getting a new downstairs bathroom and just had the plumbing and electics installed.
The pipes for the plumbing and electric cable has been run from behind kitchen units which is fine but from the run from the kitchen units to the bathroom it's just been tacked onto the skirting board. Is it safe/legal to tack electric cable to the outside of the skirting board? They're not even boxing it in I might be wrong but to me the electric cable should be either behind the skirting board (As they've done in the bathroom part) or a duct should be chiseled out of the wall and plastered over.
Also he said as it's an 'old' house the electrics need to go back to an rcd which I thought it had to whether it was a new house or old house but the building contractor hadn't asked him to do that so it would be an extra cost Surely the building contractor would have told the sparky what was needed and at the least the sparky would have quoted for going back into an rcd?
Would welcome any comments/advice
The pipes for the plumbing and electric cable has been run from behind kitchen units which is fine but from the run from the kitchen units to the bathroom it's just been tacked onto the skirting board. Is it safe/legal to tack electric cable to the outside of the skirting board? They're not even boxing it in I might be wrong but to me the electric cable should be either behind the skirting board (As they've done in the bathroom part) or a duct should be chiseled out of the wall and plastered over.
Also he said as it's an 'old' house the electrics need to go back to an rcd which I thought it had to whether it was a new house or old house but the building contractor hadn't asked him to do that so it would be an extra cost Surely the building contractor would have told the sparky what was needed and at the least the sparky would have quoted for going back into an rcd?
Would welcome any comments/advice