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Site fabricated wooden trunking/capping
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Saw this in a wooden summerhouse, the owner has created his own wooden capping to conceal the cables of a ring final circuit. I was wondering if this might create a safe zone issue where it runs along the bottom edge of the room. The cable is obviously not "buried in a wall at a depth < 50mm but could somebody inadvertently screw something to it. Is it concealed wiring or wooden trunking? Would it get a code if doing a EICR?
I agree the wooden structure won't comply with standards for trunking - I was just trying to say in terms of concealment is has the same effect.
No thermal insulation involved - so no need to resort to the 100 methods.
There is a method for cables in wooden mouldings - 12 - but oddly only for unsheathed cables. I guess 40 is the closest for sheathed cables - so reference method B. 4D5 doesn't mention method B, so revert to the generic 4D2A table where 2.5mm² gets a 23A rating.
I agree the wooden structure won't comply with standards for trunking - I was just trying to say in terms of concealment is has the same effect.
No thermal insulation involved - so no need to resort to the 100 methods.
There is a method for cables in wooden mouldings - 12 - but oddly only for unsheathed cables. I guess 40 is the closest for sheathed cables - so reference method B. 4D5 doesn't mention method B, so revert to the generic 4D2A table where 2.5mm² gets a 23A rating.
