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mikeselectricstuff:

--- Quote from: Majorbob on February 13, 2021, 06:45:21 am ---
--- Quote ---This stuff may survive the removal of the cover with care: https://www.rockwellbuildingplastics.co.uk/products/mdf-skirting-trunking-65mm-x-24m-white.html

Surface runs out of that would be gopping. It's just barely big enough for some T&E.

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I've seen the rockwell stuff before and decided it'll be too ugly/too much hassle.  You'll get T&E along it but you'll struggle getting it round a bend or out again!

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If it's in trunking you could surely use singles instead of T&E ?

Monkeh:

--- Quote from: mikeselectricstuff on February 13, 2021, 05:09:21 pm ---
--- Quote from: Majorbob on February 13, 2021, 06:45:21 am ---
--- Quote ---This stuff may survive the removal of the cover with care: https://www.rockwellbuildingplastics.co.uk/products/mdf-skirting-trunking-65mm-x-24m-white.html

Surface runs out of that would be gopping. It's just barely big enough for some T&E.

--- End quote ---

I've seen the rockwell stuff before and decided it'll be too ugly/too much hassle.  You'll get T&E along it but you'll struggle getting it round a bend or out again!

--- End quote ---
If it's in trunking you could surely use singles instead of T&E ?

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The entire run including any penetrations through walls and runs in floor and ceiling voids would then have to be in conduit or trunking, unless you add lots of joints and enclosures for them..

themadhippy:
yes you can run the wiring behind the skirting.as long  as its in metal conduit, steal wire armored cableor some other earthed metallic covering.I do hope you've registered the job with your local council buildings control office and paid the appropriate fees.

nctnico:

--- Quote from: Majorbob on February 13, 2021, 05:21:19 am ---I'm looking at rewiring my house because it's awful and there aren't enough sockets where they need to be.  I've been brushing up on my knowledge of the IET regs and am wondering why the bottom of walls is not a "safe zone" (to use 17th ed terminology).  I like the idea of having the wiring going through the skirting as I have heated flooring and, to me, it seems a much more logical place to route it all for increased adaptability and ease of access in the event of faults or additions than burying it in the wall.  (For reference all walls are brick, including internal.)

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If the walls are brick then I'd cut slits in them to facilitate extra wiring (in conduit -but don't use the flexible stuff; pulling wires through it is horrible-). You can rent machines to cut these slits. Building some kind of trunking onto the walls is beyond ugly.

gnuarm:

--- Quote from: nctnico on February 13, 2021, 05:24:18 pm ---
--- Quote from: Majorbob on February 13, 2021, 05:21:19 am ---I'm looking at rewiring my house because it's awful and there aren't enough sockets where they need to be.  I've been brushing up on my knowledge of the IET regs and am wondering why the bottom of walls is not a "safe zone" (to use 17th ed terminology).  I like the idea of having the wiring going through the skirting as I have heated flooring and, to me, it seems a much more logical place to route it all for increased adaptability and ease of access in the event of faults or additions than burying it in the wall.  (For reference all walls are brick, including internal.)

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If the walls are brick then I'd cut slits in them to facilitate extra wiring (in conduit -but don't use the flexible stuff; pulling wires through it is horrible-). You can rent machines to cut these slits. Building some kind of trunking onto the walls is beyond ugly.

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Brick!!!  Don't you guys add insulation at the inside face of the brick?  No framing?  No space to add insulation?  That is where wires are run in the US. 

I recall a home improvements TV show at a construction site where they used site fabricated, solid foam insulation for walls.  They had to cut openings for doors and windows.  They indicated running wiring was a bit of a bother, I don't recall how they managed that.  I've never heard of this becoming popular.

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