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Quick question on cable safe zones. I realise that the cable must be in a safe zone 150mm or buried at least 50mm from the surface. I have a service void in my frame which has created a 40mm space at the bottom of the wall which when plasterboarded will be 55mm (ish) so would it be acceptable to run my cables in this area which would be behind the skirting board or do I need to run the cables as you would expect in line with the sockets? The service void is filled with 40mm rockwool so it would save me drilling all the studs and making a gap for the cables. This will only happen on an exterior wall of the timber frame. TIA
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Hit a small problem today that I am struggling to find the answer to; Our Garden Room has walls that extend all the way up to the vaulted ceiling and the ceiling has an axisymmetric pitch so I am wondering where the wiring safe zone is, is it A or B or C or some combination of all three / any two? Any definitive ideas anyone?
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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.
