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I have inherited a bit of an electrical mess in the Garage/Workshop behind my house and am getting around to sorting it out.
It's currently wired with a plastic CU (broken and held together with gaffa tape) and then everything else wired with T&E in plastic conduit up and down the walls and exposed along the rafters. My concern is that due to storage of "stuff" in the roof space the exposed T&E gets more abuse than the wiring in conduit on the walls.
Anyway, what I really want to ask is what is the "best practice" for this sort of installation?
I am (slightly) tempted to re-do the whole thing in SWA but that's going to be expensive and take me forever (I am happy to work with it but not exactly swift). Is this overkill?
Failing that, should I re-do the plastic conduit throughout (this time so it is attached properly) and just pull singles? Is plastic trunking robust enough in this type of application?
Any thoughts appreciated!
It's currently wired with a plastic CU (broken and held together with gaffa tape) and then everything else wired with T&E in plastic conduit up and down the walls and exposed along the rafters. My concern is that due to storage of "stuff" in the roof space the exposed T&E gets more abuse than the wiring in conduit on the walls.
Anyway, what I really want to ask is what is the "best practice" for this sort of installation?
I am (slightly) tempted to re-do the whole thing in SWA but that's going to be expensive and take me forever (I am happy to work with it but not exactly swift). Is this overkill?
Failing that, should I re-do the plastic conduit throughout (this time so it is attached properly) and just pull singles? Is plastic trunking robust enough in this type of application?
Any thoughts appreciated!