markzoom wrote:

"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message ...

In article ,
John Rumm wrote:

(Thinking back to the Victorian place I grew up in - tall (ish)
skirtings (c. 8") - all sockets surface mounted on the skirtings)

They're more like 18" in my 'public' rooms. And have got all the sockets
etc flush mounted in them.


A sensible arrangement (me thinks). Adding the sum health hazards and
injuries of the act of installing cabling in walls and installing
them in skirting boards, me thinks the boards are safest in total. The
dust alone is reason enough, particularly if it contains old lead
paint.

In my mum's place the cables were/are almost always in the floor voids
rather than in the skirtings. This is pretty common for pre 1900 houses
since the elctrics were fitted after the place was built, and ripping
off the skirtings to install wires would be a PITA.

(the gas pipes for the lights were plastered into the walls when the
place was built though)


--
Cheers,

John.

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