Quick question on wiring regs

[nothanks]

Situation: I'm making and fitting kitchen floor cabinets around a cooker and have knocked-off the plaster from the area behind one of the cabinets so I can get it a little further back (yes, I should have made the cabinet slightly shallower :-( ). The 4mm T&E runs in the plaster across this area to the cooker outlet, which is behind the cooker. The back of the cabinet is 19mm melamine-coated MDF. The cabinet will be fixed to the wall.

Question for those more familiar with the regs than me: is there anything in the regs that means the T&E needs to be protected where it runs behind the cabinet?

[Tricky Dicky]

As long as the cable runs in a safe zone then it should be OK. However, if you as you say have stripped the plaster away exposing the cable, and if the cabinet is sitting/pressing on it then that probably will not meet the regs.

Richard

[ARW]

Protected from what?

Assuming that the cable runs in the same direction as it previously did then there is not a problem.

"covered with plaster" is not considered as protection for a T&E cable so sitting behind a cupboard is fine.

[Theo]

If there's anything sharp on the back of the cabinet that might press on the cable, I'd be tempted to put a metal plate, like a mending plate for furniture, to bridge over the gap. Just so that any forces are distributed away from the cable.

Theo

[nothanks]

Thanks! That confirms what I thought would be the case.