Is there any regs which stipulate where you can put a FSU on a chinmey breast? The chimney breast is to have the fire removed and left open, but obviously consideration has to be taken for if a fire is to be re-installed. How would you run cables? The FSU is to supply a Plasma TV mounted where a mirror would normally be. Would placing the FSU behind where the TV would be, then running cable across and down side of chimney, be ok? Please can someone spread some light of the regs for this as i'm confused and in need of a little help
FSU on Chimney Breast
- Thread starter New2Game
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The cable has to run in the permitted areas if it is less than 50mm from the surface. If the chimney is truly redundant then you could use it as a handy cable riser. It will be much more than 50mm from the surface. You must make sure the cable is properly supported, of course.
Not as such......
However, the OSG, from 16th Ed 528-02-02:
"Electrical and all other services must be protected from any harmful mutual effects foreseen as likely under conditions of normal service. For example, cables should not be in contact with or run alongside hot pipes."
Now, when I last had an open fire, the chimney breast used to get too hot to touch purely from convective heat. that constant level of very hot air flowing up the wall of the breast must be damaging to the cables and FSU, let alone the Plasma screen. I'd most definitely recommend against this and take advice from the manufacturer about the possibility of damage to the screen.
However, the OSG, from 16th Ed 528-02-02:
"Electrical and all other services must be protected from any harmful mutual effects foreseen as likely under conditions of normal service. For example, cables should not be in contact with or run alongside hot pipes."
Now, when I last had an open fire, the chimney breast used to get too hot to touch purely from convective heat. that constant level of very hot air flowing up the wall of the breast must be damaging to the cables and FSU, let alone the Plasma screen. I'd most definitely recommend against this and take advice from the manufacturer about the possibility of damage to the screen.
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