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Installation Method - Is this compliant with BS7671?

Matt Jarvis

I have recently surveyed a site that we are monitoring client side, and the electrical contractor has installed the cable supplying the bedside sockets and lighting surface mounted which will be installed behind a bedhead. Is this compliant with BS7671? We have raised this as an issue as there is no mechanical protection to the cable and also there is potential of the bedhead coming loose and damaging the cable sheath (it is a hotel...). We have advised this is installed in conduit. 

Let me know your thoughts. 

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    It doesn't seem that long ago we routinely (buckle) clipped T&E direct to surfaces - in most situations the sheath provides adequate mechanical protection to the basic insulation and often mini-trunking and the like is there purely for cosmetic reasons. We wouldn't object to exposed flex to bedside table lamps. If the bed-head is fixed to the wall and has sufficient space within it to contain the cables without crushing etc, I can't see that any further mechanical protection would be needed in what I presume is a pretty benign environment.

       - Andy.

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    It doesn't seem that long ago we routinely (buckle) clipped T&E direct to surfaces - in most situations the sheath provides adequate mechanical protection to the basic insulation and often mini-trunking and the like is there purely for cosmetic reasons. We wouldn't object to exposed flex to bedside table lamps. If the bed-head is fixed to the wall and has sufficient space within it to contain the cables without crushing etc, I can't see that any further mechanical protection would be needed in what I presume is a pretty benign environment.

       - Andy.

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