What To Do With Flex?

[securespark]

I have an appliance flex passing through a paramount wall, to be connected to an FCU on the other side.

What do you think would look neater:

1. Just pass the flex through a hole?

2. Fit a flex outlet, but pass the flex straight through it to the other side without breaking it?

3. Or other method?

Thanks.

 

[pjcomp]

3 - FCU to flex outlet, flex outlet to appliance.

PJ

 

[ricicle]

One of my old bosses used to say to me "do it how you would like to see it in your house "

 

[PrenticeBoyofDerry]

Could just pop a wall grommet in!

 

[JohnW2]

I have an appliance flex passing through a paramount wall ....

Education time, it seems ... wot's a 'paramount wall' ?

Kind Regards, John

 

[PrenticeBoyofDerry]

I have an appliance flex passing through a paramount wall ....

Education time, it seems ... wot's a 'paramount wall' ?

Kind Regards, John

Paramount boards are two plasterboards that have an internal sandwich of corrugated (honeycomb) cardboard. Used quite a lot in the eighties but not now.
Joiners used to fit head and sole plate timbers and you could slide them over them and if you needed any timbers for fixing items, could hammer the timbers in to corrugated section.

 

[JohnW2]

Education time, it seems ... wot's a 'paramount wall' ?

Paramount boards are two plasterboards that have an internal sandwich of corrugated (honeycomb) cardboard. Used quite a lot in the eighties but not now.

Thanks - they must have 'passed me by'!

Kind Regards, John

 

[PrenticeBoyofDerry]

Thanks - they must have 'passed me by'!

You don't know what you missed, they were a fantastic pain in the arse!
Still come across them now and again used quite a lot in flats and boxed up council houses, back in the day!

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[JohnW2]

Thanks - they must have 'passed me by'!

You don't know what you missed, they were a fantastic pain in the a**e! ...

Thanks again - reminds me a bit of the construction of many a so-called 'door' I've come across

Kind Regards, John

 

[PrenticeBoyofDerry]

Yes, very egg boxy!

 

[flameport]

Paramount walling is much older than the 1980s, this is from a catalogue published in 1958:

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[PrenticeBoyofDerry]

Paramount walling is much older than the 1980s, this is from a catalogue published in 1958:

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Yes much older but very popular in late 70's/ early 80's.

 

[securespark]

Thanks guys.

PJC - Why put extra joint in?

Rice - it is my house!

PBOD - What's one of those?

Re Paramount - construction on the house began in 1960.

 

[Lectrician]

Still used in some office partitions using aluminium base and head rails, and "H" section verticals between the 8*4 sheets - It comes ready to be painted/papered, or already papered with huge 8*4 paper (the paper is available seperately too and is a PITA to hang!)

Fitting dado trunking to it is a pain for fixings (have to use cavity types) and you have to nibble around the risers as they protrude from the walls.

 

[kai]

Paramount walling.
I had that in my old home, great for adding sockets, as you just cut away the plasterboard in the desired socket location, and dropped the cable down the pre formed vertical grooves, via the ceiling void, insert a dryliner box, and on goes the socket.