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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?
In theory we stick to safe zones to reduce the risk of careless damage.
We work on the principle that eveone knows/should know where cables are likely to be when hidden from sight.
Of course we all know that lots of people are not aware of this - Ok they should not be risking accindental penetration if they are not competent but we know that in practice this does happen.
So we does our best.
Is it reasonable for us to assume that a "reasonable person" might reasonably deduce that this is trunking to contain and protect cables and therefore we must keep away with nails/screws and the like?
Methinks probably it is not or not much less safe than burying in walls or than using "recognised" trunking therefore nearly as good as using "proper" trunking.
If we use this method then inevitably some accidents will occour, however we also carry almost the same risk with our bog standard methods of zoning and trunking.and the risks are not totally eliminated.
In theory we stick to safe zones to reduce the risk of careless damage.
We work on the principle that eveone knows/should know where cables are likely to be when hidden from sight.
Of course we all know that lots of people are not aware of this - Ok they should not be risking accindental penetration if they are not competent but we know that in practice this does happen.
So we does our best.
Is it reasonable for us to assume that a "reasonable person" might reasonably deduce that this is trunking to contain and protect cables and therefore we must keep away with nails/screws and the like?
Methinks probably it is not or not much less safe than burying in walls or than using "recognised" trunking therefore nearly as good as using "proper" trunking.
If we use this method then inevitably some accidents will occour, however we also carry almost the same risk with our bog standard methods of zoning and trunking.and the risks are not totally eliminated.
