RE: Cable Fishing kit?! Reccomendations....cheap of course!

["Jim" <jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Interesting comments about regs and cavities.

We had an NIC registered sparky do some work a few months back which
included a couple of new drops for sockets. He just did one drop and ran
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cable horizontally through the cavity to the other, saving an awkward
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drop which would have come up under a wardrobe.

Paperwork signed off and Part P certs issued.


<puzzled>

Jim

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, Neil Fuller <neil.fuller@...> wrote:
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> Noel
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> What, exactly, are you trying to do!?
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> In the "old days", we used to drop cables down cavities. We
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> a hole at the top and at the bottom, drop a length of chain (jack
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> from the electrical wholesalers) down and fish it out at the bottom!
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> Worked a treat! Now, of course, building regs prohibits the use of=20
> cavities for running cables . . . . . . . . .
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> When the "fishing rods" first hit the market, they were very
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> price. Now, I've seen sets at over =A3100!!!!!!!
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> So, if you just need to do a quick job, fishing a cable, say, down
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> back of a built in wardrobe, you could do worse than buy a length
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> mini trunking and use the lid. Cheaper still would be some bamboo
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> the garden center, although I've always found bamboo to snag.
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> If you do go the cavity route, use a bit of string tied to a weight
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> ..  . . Just don't tell building control I told you so ;-)
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> HTH
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> Regards
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> Neil