Is this legit??

[ericmark]

This was April one would hope by now all corrected.

 

[EFLImpudence]

but as for the comments regarding capping and running behind the skirting board you guys are wrong.

The building regs has a zone of protection that is 6 inches from and wall, floor or ceiling and in line vertically and horizontally with any fixed outlet and these are the only acceptable places to run buried cables and they must be covered by an RCD.

I don't think the Building Regulations concern themselves with such things BUT if they have reproduced the electrical regulations somewhere and included 6 inches from the floor, then THEY ARE WRONG.

Capping be it metal or plastic isn’t designed to protect cables from drilling, it’s designed as a fixing for cables and at most protect the cables from a plasterers float and it doesn’t need bonding to earth.

That is correct.

 

[Ben Weston]

I stand mildly corrected, it’s an electrical regulation and it doesn’t include the bottom of a wall where skirting would run but it is 150mm everywhere else I said.


Regulation 522.6

 

[ban-all-sheds]

as for the comments regarding capping and running behind the skirting board you guys are wrong.

You now agree that we were not wrong about the skirting board.

Capping be it metal or plastic isn’t designed to protect cables from drilling,

Which is what we said, so not wrong there, either

t doesn’t need bonding to earth.

If it were being used as mechanical protection it would need earthing. But not bonding.

 

[seasickstevie]

I wonder if 600Rob got satisfaction from Wickes' sparky.