Wall mounting TV - socket / aerial point height

[busydad]

Good morning,

I am planning to wall mount the TV in the living room.

I had planned to move the coax aerial point and a double socket to the centre and then put a TV unit in front to hide the sockets and where the cables exit from the wall running from the TV.

The thing that is giving me a headache is the part M regulation about socket height.
My house was built in 2003, before the reg came into force, so my sockets are about 420mm high (to the bottom).

If I add another socket in the centre of the wall do I have to keep at least this height or can I lower it (even if I add a FCU spur?). Same goes for the co-ax aerial point and cable outlet.

All of the TV units I have seen are between 390 and 450mm high, so won't cover the outlets if I have to keep the 420mm height.

Any advice is appreciated thanks.

 

[mwatsonxx]

Put it where ever you like

 

[Taylortwocities]

The thing that is giving me a headache is the part M regulation about socket height.

To explain. Part M only is for disabled access and is only applicable to new build homes.


So as mwat says. Put it where you like.

 

[EFLImpudence]

I am sure disabled people do not want plugs showing around their TVs, either.

 

[Taylortwocities]

Or sockets

 

[EFLImpudence]

Yeah, that too, nor flex.

 

[busydad]

Thanks everyone, that is a relief.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

These days one traditional coax socket is not enough.

You can get them with unused euro module apertures so that you can mix'n'match whatever "data" sockets you want.

Or smaller ones