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| message from PJ on 11 May 2004 |
Anyone know if it's within regs to run meter tails from meter to consumer
unit inside a cavity wall? Approx length...2m
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| Bob Mannix replied to PJ on 11 May 2004 |
Yes - it's the norm. for inset meter boxes.
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| troubleinstore replied to PJ on 11 May 2004 |
That's how it was done when my Mum's bungalow was built by Barrett's
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| Ed Sirett replied to troubleinstore on 11 May 2004 |
Copying the practice of any large house builder is not likely to _ensure_
that you are following either best practice or the regs.
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| Bob Eager replied to Ed Sirett on 11 May 2004 |
Of course, he may have been making the point that that proves it's not
the way to do it! :-)
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| James Salisbury replied to troubleinstore on 11 May 2004 |
A big builder ran both tails at my parents in RED and also put a 15amp screw
terminal connector halfway down one of the main bonds, all the sockets
upstaiars are spured off down stairs, no grommets, no shield on the unused
fuseways etc
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| LOZ34 replied to PJ on 11 May 2004 |
Not that this means much
. NHBC Requirements
It is noteworthy that the National House-Building Council states, in Section
8.1 - S2 of NHBC Standards, that no cables other than electricity meter
tails are to be located in the cavity of an external wall. Where meter tails
do have to pass through the cavity, however, this does not preclude the
requirements of BS 7671 referred to in this topic having to be met.
the NICEIC do not consider it good practice as the later addition of
insulation will affect the current carrying capacity of the tails.
loz34
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