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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. 

  • 0 in reply to mapj1
    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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    It seems to me that the headboard provides better mechanical protection that a bit of plastic conduit or trunking.

  • 0 in reply to Harry Macdonald

    Yes agreed.

    I suppose the OP might be concerned as to the likely status of the particular headboard. That is, is it permanent/semi-permanent, how long is it likely to be there and once removed is a renewal broadly similar/very different and what is the timescale likelihood etc etc.

    So I think it reasonable to consider all of this against the question "Do we bury/trunk it etc etc?" 

  • 0 in reply to ebee

    You've got me wondering about how I used to wire replacement kitchens.

    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.

    Seems similar to the op but I never gave it a thought, am I a badger?!

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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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