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?

Pete Zahut wrote:
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 would not worry - he does not seem to be the sharpest tool in the box...

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?

Indeed you can.


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Cheers,

John.

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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

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 )