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With all our recent alarms and excursions, trips round the desert [insert your own cliche] I have not been thinking too far ahead. But, now we are able to plan a little way ahead. To first fix. What does first fix mean? I have done a few hours reading based on this search, and elsewhere; this YT search is useful I'd like to collate your responses into a simple list. One bit of reading about First Fix points to the contest for space in the gap between ceiling and floor. MVHR ducting seems to come out on top. So maybe an ordered list would add value: scheduling is a persistent self-build nightmare. -
I'm about ready to start battening out the inside of my build, and I guess now is a good time to do a rough plan of wheret he wiring runs need to be- so that the the battens don't end up in the wrong places. I can draw everything out on top of the (paper faced) Kingspan at this stage which will be a nice easy way of doing it. Just wanted to double check something- I understand I can have cables in a safe zone up to 125mm wide, at the ceiling, and thereafter running horizontally or vertically to each outlet- nothing going diagonal without being ducted in metal. My floor is effectively solid- ok so it's actually chipboard but as an airtight face of the building, I do not want to disrupt it to run wires. Now, can I create a 'safe zone' of 125mm along the floor? This would make for shorter cable runs to each socket which is presumably safer than having floor to ceiling runs each time. And of course at the end of the day my build is not subject to BC so I can do what I want, but I don't want to deviate from good practise, especially with things like wiring.
