Cabling Question

["Tracey Gardner" <tracey.gardner@xxxxxxx>]

Sorry Mal but you're not 100% correct.

You are allowed to install power and lighting circuit cabling without
any
protection as long as it runs either vertically or horizontally from a
socket or switch, or if it is with 150mm? of a ceiling or a corner,
IIRC.
If you decide to run it diagonally across a wall or through a wall and
up
the other side as I have done on several occasions then you are required
to
protect it .

My plasterer wasn't very happy when I told him that I wasn't obliged to
cap
the majority of my cables.
He advised that I should cap the cabling in order to avoid any damage
being
done it whilst he was plastering.
I used cheap galvanised capping which is very easy to cut and fix and
should
offer enough resistance to a masonry drill for people to realise that
there
is a cable in the wall.

Tracey

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