Tim S wrote:
Pete Zahut coughed up some electrons that declared:

Just been channel-hopping while I'm waiting for the wife and came
across an episode of DIY SOS. Billy the electrician was complaining
that someone had wired up some sockets in the kitchen by running the
cable left-to-right instead of up-and-down.

I thought you could run cable both vertically and horizontally, as
long as it is a straight run to an obvious socket/switch/whatever,
eg, come down from the ceiling to a socket, then say out a metre to
the right for another socket, and then take the return leg back to
the first socket box and back up the chase to the ceiling again?


You're right and he's wrong, as John says.

eg I've just done this and it's by the book (17th that is):

http://photos.dionic.net/v/public/bu..._0018.jpg.html

Not only that, you also have a 15cm band on the wall out from each
internal corner and down from the ceiling. The latter I've made use
of, bending the oval conduit so that it can miss lumps of wood that
are in the way above the ceiling. In fact I've been absolutely
pedantic about keeping the conduit withing the vertical zone until it
hits the 15cm band, then veering left or right at upto 30 degrees.

Cheers

Tim

Thanks guys )