Wago's inside conduit?

[Deleted member 142255]

The example I gave was to highlight a situation where alteration was unlikely and length of wiring was so insignificant along with ease of removing it if such a situation were to arise.

So nothing to do with the origial thread actually. Just you throweing a spanner in the works.

The complication of adding trunking (as it happens in that scenario it would have been a lot of additional work cutting appropriate holes through the shelving arrangements) , drilling it to take conduit adapters etc would have been crazy amounts of additional work for absolutely zero gain whatsoever.

You're havin a laff!

How many shelves etc in someones outside loo.

In a garage sized workshop my assessment could very likely be different.

Which is what the OP stated in #1, so your entire disrailing was nonsense and I answered.

 

[SUNRAY]

So nothing to do with the origial thread actually. Just you throweing a spanner in the works.

You're havin a laff!

How many shelves etc in someones outside loo.

Were you there to survey the job?
No I didn't think so... so you have absolutely no idea what was there and what I was working round?

No I wasn't having a laugh

Which is what the OP stated in #1, so your entire disrailing was nonsense and I answered.

Just adding the comment that trunking (which I have installed vast quantities of from smaller than MT1 to 600x300mm in multiple different materials) is a very useful product but not always the most sensible solution, as in the case of the ex coal shed, and in my opinion also in the case of the school stage lighting.

If as you say

...Conduit. Pulling cables in for inexperienced is flippimg hard work and risks burning them...

Then Im surprised you suggest:

... trunking with conduit drops is the most appropriate way to install this.

So no not derailing, just suggesting to assess the situation well before starting the job. Especially as OP has already surveyed and come up with a plan for the installation which I assume they are happy with and only came here asking about the wiring method which was actually answered 14 posts before your first. And I'll hope you noticed I gave you a thumbs up and again to yours 22 posts later before commenting on you advice, which I was far from contradicting. There is rarely a single solution to a job just as there are usually multiple ways of making hard work of it just as there are also ways of getting it blatantly wrong or dangerous (absolutely no suggestion that applies here).

Can I suggest we save arguements for where they are applicable?

 

[SUNRAY]

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[Deleted member 142255]

Can I suggest we save arguements for where they are applicable?

Oh dear somebody is touchy.

 

[SUNRAY]

Oh dear somebody is touchy.

just annoyed.

 

[JohnW2]

Horizontal conduit runs with Tees would be a nightmare. Any future alteration would require all cables to be removed from the section of conduit.

Trunking would seem reasonable in the OP's garage but, more generally, I don't recall having seen it in 'inhabited' parts of a domestic building.

I don't really see why a cable run around the top of a garage wall really needs any mechanical protection. It could therefore presumably be surface-mounted T+E, with drops from that (in conduit if one really thought that necessary) to the sockets? ... easier, quicker and cheaper, and I would have thought probably perfectly adequate for the great majority of domestic garages.

 

[Risteard]

Singles is the cable for conduit not T and E.

Precisely. T&E has no business in containment as a general rule.

 

[justigator]

How about buy a roll of T&E and a roll of G/Y. strip the 2 insulated conductors out of the T/E and run singles with the G/Y in the conduit?
OR get 25mm conduit?

I'd also get some cable lube

Did this in my garage and my large garden room, running 20mm plastic conduit horizontally, except that I used 2.5mm green/yellow single for the CPC. Dead easy. Phase and neutral are therefore solid while the CPC is stranded, but an (excellent) electrician I consulted saw no issue with that. Don't think the 1.5mm CPC in 2.5mm T&E would be regs-compliant in that situation.