Cable runs

[Pete Zahut]

Just been channel-hopping while I'm waiting for the wife and came across an episode of DIY SOS. Billy the electrician was complaining that someone had wired up some sockets in the kitchen by running the cable left-to-right instead of up-and-down.

I thought you could run cable both vertically and horizontally, as long as it is a straight run to an obvious socket/switch/whatever, eg, come down from the ceiling to a socket, then say out a metre to the right for another socket, and then take the return leg back to the first socket box and back up the chase to the ceiling again?

[John Rumm]

I would not worry - he does not seem to be the sharpest tool in the box...

Indeed you can.

[Tim S]

Pete Zahut coughed up some electrons that declared:

You're right and he's wrong, as John says.

eg I've just done this and it's by the book (17th that is):

only that, you also have a 15cm band on the wall out from each internal corner and down from the ceiling. The latter I've made use of, bending the oval conduit so that it can miss lumps of wood that are in the way above the ceiling. In fact I've been absolutely pedantic about keeping the conduit withing the vertical zone until it hits the 15cm band, then veering left or right at upto 30 degrees.

Cheers

Tim

[Pete Zahut]

Thanks guys :o)