- Reaction score
- 5
A 10mm cable supplying shower is chased down the bathroom wall (in correct zone) and is then chased from celing height down the wall in the kitchen below. The cable pops out of the kitchen wall below contertop level making the rest of the journed to the CU on the surface but cannot be seen because it is behind cooker/cupboards.
The cable is not within a prescribed safe zone (150mm from corner or ceiling nor in line with an accessory).
The reason for safe zones is to prevent someone accidentally drilling into a live concealed cable.
The cable is RCD protected. To move the cable will be expensive and time consuming and drilling into it is very unlikely because the place where it is buried in plaster is behind the cookerhood and tiled cooker splashback.
Is it a C2 or C3?
to move it will require chasing into the brick another channel and could weaken the wall.
The cable is not within a prescribed safe zone (150mm from corner or ceiling nor in line with an accessory).
The reason for safe zones is to prevent someone accidentally drilling into a live concealed cable.
The cable is RCD protected. To move the cable will be expensive and time consuming and drilling into it is very unlikely because the place where it is buried in plaster is behind the cookerhood and tiled cooker splashback.
Is it a C2 or C3?
to move it will require chasing into the brick another channel and could weaken the wall.
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