SWA cable cleats, how are they supposed to be used?

[Chris Green]

This may seem rather a silly question but looking at the 'SWA cable cleats' supplied by Screwfix and others I'm not really sure how they are supposed to be used.

Do you really fix an SWA cable onto a flat surface with these, with a screw through the hole? It makes for an asymmetrical mount with one flat side (where the screw is) and one half round side (round the cable).

They *look* as if they'd be happier with the half round end away from the wall but I can't see how you could fix them that way.

[Andy Burns]

Excuse the cobwebs ...

[Robin]

Do you mean ones like these

or like these (which I can't see on Screwfix)

[Chris Green]

Thanks Andy, they just seem somehow 'wrong' like that. :-)

[Chris Green]

The first, specifically called 'cleats' for some odd reason.

[Robin]

I asked as I've never thought of the end of those as being "half round".

And FWLIW I was told that SWA cable should hang from cleats (ie with the screw at the top). But that could be 180 degrees wrong.

[Andy Burns]

I found it "sat" better with the blunt end inside the bends

[ARW]

Well the regs only say how far apart they need to be not which way up they need to be.