On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:29:06 +0100, John Rumm
wrote:

Harry Bloomfield wrote:

1. The cable should have been provided with some mechanical protection,

Yes

it is against regulations to install the bare PVC in a wall without this.

and no.

It is ok to install PVC directly into a wall - even without mechanical
protection so long as it follows an "expected" route. This means
horizontaly or vertically aligned with a visible accessory, or within a
150mm zone beside a room corner or adjacent to the ceiling.

Since this cable does not follow the expected route (i.e. turns a corner
above the extractor), it ought to be either 50mm deep (from both sides
of the wall - so tricky in a 4" wall) or be capped.

Wasn't the extractor plugged into a socket (= wiring accessory) behind
the dummy chimney? The cable runs horizontally from that and
vertically from the double socket...







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..andy

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