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What IEE Regulations apply to underfloor wiring?

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I am renovating a domestic house. My electrician is suggesting that the electrical wiring should be put in conduit run in screed below the underfloor heating pipes. In order to save costs he wants to run the conduit diagonally across the room. Would this conform to IEE Regs? What other regulations should I consider?

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    Interesting. In walls, cables have to follow certain routes, but that is because occupiers may bang nails in the walls. I don't think that that applies to floors.

    However, if the cables are in proximity to warm pipes, an allowance will have to be made for the ambient temperature as well as the method of installation. Put another way, the cables may need to be thicker than they would be under say a suspended wooden floor.

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    Interesting. In walls, cables have to follow certain routes, but that is because occupiers may bang nails in the walls. I don't think that that applies to floors.

    However, if the cables are in proximity to warm pipes, an allowance will have to be made for the ambient temperature as well as the method of installation. Put another way, the cables may need to be thicker than they would be under say a suspended wooden floor.

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