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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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    Every installation needs to be designed see 132.1.

    Regulation 132.7 requires the designer to consider external influences wiring methods.

    What consideration, if any, was given by the  designer to putting T&E cable behind a bed head to impact damage?

    For me supervising this job it would be you can remove that and replace it with ...........

    JP

  • 0 in reply to John Peckham

    I'd worry if it was in singles and perhaps if it was a soft sheathed flex, but T and E is hard plastic sheathed, I'm not sure to use it like this it is anything worse than a bit scruffy.  After all you'd not blink at T and E nailed up the wall in a garage between a light switch and the ceiling or would you?

    Mike.

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    mapj1 said:
    After all you'd not blink at T and E nailed up the wall in a garage between a light switch and the ceiling or would you?

    I'd not want it in my own garage, but I'd install it in somebody else's.

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    mapj1 said:
    After all you'd not blink at T and E nailed up the wall in a garage between a light switch and the ceiling or would you?

    I'd not want it in my own garage, but I'd install it in somebody else's.

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