Capping required?

[ebee]

Ooh Ban that was naughty of you.
LOL.

"ebee wrote:
"
in fact has been know to constitute extra danger (metal capping that is).

Interesting, what “extra danger” does steel capping present "

I know this bore folk because I said it before,
case in point,
family getting shocks off bathroom wall,

chased ot the capping covered cable to discover a nail hole present ( but no nail present),
sometime in the past the naill had pierced it and some shards of the capping were sitting niclety connected to the Ph conductor,
the whole capping was live and the dampish plaster around it.
Nice live wall.

If capping not present then the problem might not have been as severe

 

[Taylortwocities]

Oval, ha

Here's what I found during a kitchen refurb. The wall plug was supporting a kitchen cabinet. The screw in the plug was live. The lighting circuit (in the oval) had been working for the 15 years that the kitchen had been there

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[londonboy]

Ive got a picture on my phone (god knows how u get em on here) of a metal hinge that was live after a plumber decided to refix the door with 2 inch 10's, straight through the ring final hiding behind the door lining!

 

[ban-all-sheds]

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This is what you want:

 

[Taylortwocities]

Ive got a picture on my phone (god knows how u get em on here) of a metal hinge that was live after a plumber decided to refix the door with 2 inch 10's, straight through the ring final hiding behind the door lining!

So who's fault was that then.
The plumber (why was he doing carpentry?)
or the person who installed the cables in the wrong place?

I know who I think is at fault.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Bosch - hugely variable quality, some are ok but you don't know which ones until you have purchased them.

Does that apply to blue ones, or green?

All battery powered tools - useless.

Oh I don't know - Paslode nail guns, for example? (well they are triggered by a battery ).

They have their uses - nothing wrong with a good 18 or 24V for light work.

And contrary to all expectations, this is pretty good:



it's small and light, the pivoting handle is useful in confined spaces, and what I think is a great feature that many much more expensive ones have is that F/R is selected with a separate switch, not by pressing the trigger one way or the other, so when you've had to hold it in the wrong hand at an odd angle you don't have to try and work out which side of the trigger to press.

And it's cheap enough not to fret if it breaks or disappears.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

The plumber (why was he doing carpentry?)

Maybe he thought there was a pipe hidden there.

 

[martinxxxxxx]

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This is what you want:

If it can be just T+E, why have you gone to all this trouble?

Looks like real hard work

 

[ban-all-sheds]

If it can be just T+E,

It can't, always, not if you want to avoid using an RCD.

why have you gone to all this trouble?

I haven't - it's not mine.

But I am doing the same in places in my house.

Looks like real hard work

It isn't.

Not for straight runs, anyway.

 

[RF Lighting]

Remember, BS7671 is the MINIMUM standard you must work to. If you want to do a better job, there is nothing stopping you.

 

[riveralt]

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This is what you want:

'Vertical chases should not be deeper than one-third of the wall thickness or in cavity walls one third of the thickness of the leaf.' Part A section 2C30.

Now where is my depth gauge

 

[RF Lighting]

It's 5" brick with 3/4" render on either side, and finish plaster on top of that.

 

[ebee]

not in inches in millimetres please.
We must go metric every inch of the way these days

 

[RF Lighting]

I just think a 6 incher sounds better than a 150 millimeter-er.

 

[ebee]

I know