what do you do with 17 cat 6a cables to get past building control?

[CalvinHobbes]

Hello, we have 17 cat 6a electrical cables coming down into the room where our fuse boxes etc are. We would like to put that on ice for now but to get past building control if we velcro tied them into a figure of 8 (or three) with the ends electrical taped - would that do? Or do we need to trunk them and put them into a box or something?

 

[Mr Punter]

If they are not carrying current I don't see what this would have to do with BC.

 

If they are compromising a fire rated ceiling or floor you would need to fire stop them.

[Alan Ambrose]

BC won't care a bit about them and no need to tape the ends. At some point you'll want to terminate them and plug them into a big hub/switch. But until then, yeah maybe some fire stopping implications for the penetrations(s).

 

[CalvinHobbes]

Thank you!

[Nickfromwales]

Too small a diameter for b regs to moan about fire breach. 
 

And don’t fold them, turn them in a loop to not damage the cores!

[Temp]

They don't didnt care about mine or the TV coax.

[Spinny]

BC have shown no interest in my Cat6.

I'm expecting to give them an electrical certification from my sparky when all is done- I can't see them second guessing that really.

As far as I am aware there is no network certification required for domestic networks.

Low voltage cables like Cat6, speaker cable, HDMI etc not supposed to share ducting with high voltage.

 

There are some nice semi-autistic videos of tidy cabling into patch panels and racks on youtube.