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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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    I'd drop down from a socket to below worktop height and clip direct round the wall popping up and down at each new socket location.

    That's certainly a lot better than some I've seen - where the T&E is just laid on the floor at the back of the base units ... were the mice can to gnaw through it but it's a pig to get to to repair.

       - Andy.

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    I'd drop down from a socket to below worktop height and clip direct round the wall popping up and down at each new socket location.

    That's certainly a lot better than some I've seen - where the T&E is just laid on the floor at the back of the base units ... were the mice can to gnaw through it but it's a pig to get to to repair.

       - Andy.

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