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What is the preferred way of getting cables from a CU on the ground floor up to the attic?
What is the preferred way of getting cables from a CU on the ground floor up to the attic?
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- Thread starter peterduckett
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Personally I'd run a spur from a socket with an FCU (or an rcd fcu if the consumer unit hasn't got RCD protection) on the top floor.
Though it does depend on what you want power up there to serve and what route is open to you ??
Though it does depend on what you want power up there to serve and what route is open to you ??
I'm not on about getting power up their for anything particular im on about routing cables Lighting, Shower etc how would most sparkies do this as it seems that some have been routed in the cavity wall which is insulated
Depends on the build fabric.
Adjacent to wet service is common in my area of mainly older housing. Following the wet mains from ground to tank in loft.
A lot of the housing stock has wood frame internal walls on the 1st floor and fishing cable is easy between loft and 1st floor ground level.
I tend to provide a trunking or boxed in panel route. You could simply chase the plaster and plaster over as long as you keep within the correct route.
What sort of building is it and what are you thinking you'd like to do ?
Adjacent to wet service is common in my area of mainly older housing. Following the wet mains from ground to tank in loft.
A lot of the housing stock has wood frame internal walls on the 1st floor and fishing cable is easy between loft and 1st floor ground level.
I tend to provide a trunking or boxed in panel route. You could simply chase the plaster and plaster over as long as you keep within the correct route.
What sort of building is it and what are you thinking you'd like to do ?
Not thinking of doing anything at the moment! Other than having a shower fitted soon Wire is 2.5mm so not good enough.
I'm curious to the cable runs in the house current their are some run i the cavity and one up an internal brick wall for lighting.
The house is completely brick internal so I'm trying to guess what a sparky would do (out of curiosity) if we converted the loft or had the shower fitted.
I'm guessing the best way would be to install conduit from the consumer unit all the way to the roof but I'm not sure
the future assumption would be
2X lighting Loops
1X Final Ring
1X 10mm shower
possible rout for fire alarms
I'm curious to the cable runs in the house current their are some run i the cavity and one up an internal brick wall for lighting.
The house is completely brick internal so I'm trying to guess what a sparky would do (out of curiosity) if we converted the loft or had the shower fitted.
I'm guessing the best way would be to install conduit from the consumer unit all the way to the roof but I'm not sure
the future assumption would be
2X lighting Loops
1X Final Ring
1X 10mm shower
possible rout for fire alarms
Running cables in wall cavities is not recommended as it is supposed to encourage damp if the cavity is bridged.
Never seen it meself, mind you.
There's an interesting thread on the IET forum here : cavity wiring
Never seen it meself, mind you.
There's an interesting thread on the IET forum here : cavity wiring
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