On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 00:16:09 -0000, Chris Oates wrote:

Ugly wiring is not a hanging offence

But might make the inspector look a bit harder at the installation.

most peeps clip them to the wall so that high current circuits go
nearest the nearest the switch and lighting furthest away.

The instructions for the CU should say that anyway. But trying to
arrange the cables so they layout like that down the wall is probably
a good idea. Personally I'd go for good sized truncking with lots of
space around each cable or make the board that CU is attched to go
right up to the ceiling an neatly clip the cables to that. What you
don't want to do is squeeze them all together in a tight bundle, the
ones in the middle might(*) get too hot...

(*) small might depends entirely on the loads, but the inspector might
take a dim view of a tight bundle.

DO NOT cut wires to exact length - leave some slack somewhere

A good foot or so tucked up into the void and again the use of a duct
or clipped to a board means things are easy to move about compared to
being chased into the wall with bends etc. If you want to cover the
clipped cables a couple of 1" battens and a sheet of light
ply/hardboard will do, probably good from the physical protection POV
anyway.

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Cheers
Dave. pam is missing e-mail