How not to run your cables !!!!

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Bazdaa
 
providing they are buried 50mm deep (unlikely) or are in earthed steel conduit, its allowed.
 
Fair enough, but its not good practice is it?

By the way, the cable was bureied about 4mm :shock:

Bazdaa
 
Bazdaa said:
Fair enough, but its not good practice is it?

By the way, the cable was bureied about 4mm :shock:

Bazdaa

i would only go that way if there wasnt any other options.

as for : shock :, its not you. its the person who puts a metal shelf up.... :lol:
 
Could easily have run it straight up, then within 150mm of the angle with the ceiling, no probs. :D
 
Bazdaa said:
Pity Part P would not have caught this!

Bazdaa

why wouldnt part p have caught it?

either a self cert electrician who knows damn well what hes doing would be the installer so wouldnt do this

or the first fix would be inspected by the council and this abortion identified and have to be done properly

unless your saying about the people who are pretending part p hasnt happened?

(or you've just done me hook,line n sinker :oops: )
 
No, because Part P alone will not allow you to sign of your own work. So you would have to get building control in to inspect the work. By the time they turn up, the wall would have been filled, plastered or painted!


Bazdaa
 
Bazdaa said:
No, because Part P alone will not allow you to sign of your own work. So you would have to get building control in to inspect the work. By the time they turn up, the wall would have been filled, plastered or painted!

If you do notify and call building control to inspect the work they come after the first fix before the work is covered up. If it is covered up they would ask you to expose it to satisfy them anyway.
 
But with part p anyone doing any electrical works should be working to the latest regs.. so in theory it should stop this.

Kev

But back in the real world......
 
BJS, my experience is totally different.

Building control weren't interested in checking the first fix or the final installation.

They just wanted a cert, which they wouldn't do themselves either.

I know, I know.... They have to, but my local building control office wont. I called the office of the dept pm and told them and they said they'd make some calls but nothing moved forward so I did a regs course, borrowed a tester and did the testing myself.

Kev
 
JohnD said:
Good thick wallpaper will protect it :wink:

I was speaking to an ex colleague the other evening and a friend of his had just moved into a new property. He was called round to have a look, and some strange 'reliefs' were pointed out between two wall lights. Turns out the previous occupant had just covered the t&e, running in all directions, with wallpaper. :P
 
Mr Winston said:
Bazdaa said:
Pity Part P would not have caught this!

Bazdaa

why wouldnt part p have caught it?

either a self cert electrician who knows damn well what hes doing would be the installer so wouldnt do this

or the first fix would be inspected by the council and this abortion identified and have to be done properly

unless your saying about the people who are pretending part p hasnt happened?

(or you've just done me hook,line n sinker :oops: )

it might not have been notifiable work. maybe adding a socket in a sitting room and the nearest socket was in the rom upstairs.
 
oops......good spot andy.

i dont know why but ive got a gut feeling that this is a kitchen (maybe bathroom).....or is that last nights doner?

Bazdaa put me out of my misery - what room is it?
 

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