dennis@home wrote:


If you really want to fulfill every regulation in the book, then you
can drill one end of the capping and fix an earth bond from it to
the new socket
/ appliance point. But that is not absolutely needed. All you
really want,
is to stop anyone banging a nail through the cable, which the
capping has already been designed to do.

No it isn't.
Its just to stop the plaster's float damaging it.
It offers *no* protection against nails or multi-construction drills.
The plastic stuff is cheaper and does the same job.

I was thinking about those multi material drills, they will drill steel
quite effectively - certainly would go through metal capping easily enough.


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Dave - The Medway Handyman
www.medwayhandyman.co.uk