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Fire Supports on Cat5 cables EICR

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Hope im in the right section.


Doing an EICR, and the install has a false ceiling which is a drop out tile from the grid. Orginal install very good with Trunking and tube, all on hangers and fixed with anchors to the slab. So no problems there.

Then Mr IT guy, has lashed cat5 cables across the ceiling, just laying on the ceiling grid. So with 18th edition, and with cat5 being POE, as an inspector Im thinking about coding as a C3, as under collaspe, these cables would drop to floor. Or should I just leave alone as maybe not part of the electrical system?


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    I agree - if the ceiling grid itself is of the usual all steel construction held up with steel wires and steel fixings into the concrete, I would have thought it would have provided quite adequate support for a few data cables even during a fire. If there were a huge number of cables such that their weight might greatly exceed what the grid could carry (either in normal conditions or perhaps if weakened by heat from a fire), that might be an issue - but that would perhaps be less usual.


      - Andy.
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    I agree - if the ceiling grid itself is of the usual all steel construction held up with steel wires and steel fixings into the concrete, I would have thought it would have provided quite adequate support for a few data cables even during a fire. If there were a huge number of cables such that their weight might greatly exceed what the grid could carry (either in normal conditions or perhaps if weakened by heat from a fire), that might be an issue - but that would perhaps be less usual.


      - Andy.
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