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UK electrical wiring
themadhippy:
--- Quote ---Brick!!! Don't you guys add insulation at the inside face of the brick
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All depends on the way its built,but generally internal walls wont be insulated.To run the wires on brik walls there placed nice and flat against the wall and covered in either capping (plastic or metal) or oval plastic conduit.The wall gets plastered burying the cables,the covering is to stop the mud chucker (plasterer) from damaging the cables.Nowadays most new homes use stud work for internal walls so the wiring will in the gap between the boards.
Zero999:
--- Quote from: gnuarm on February 13, 2021, 05:32:03 pm ---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.
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Yes brick. Insulation is in a cavity between two brick walls.
iainwhite:
It is often an inner wall of concrete blocks and an outer wall of brick, separated by an air gap containing insulation.
james_s:
You certainly wouldn't see anything like that out here in earthquake territory. Looks like it would pose a far greater resistance to fire than the wood houses we have though. Seems like a really easy way to wire a home like that would be to run conduit from box to box and plaster over that.
Monkeh:
That is essentially what happens, yes. And why we have safe zones (which extend to most stud walls as well), because thick, heavy, expensive metal conduit isn't really worthwhile.
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