Another cable routing question.

[onzadog]

I've just chased out the plasterboard wall and I've got my conduit but do I need to clip the 2.5 mm T&E to the wall as well? The run is only about a meter and a half and runs from a socket to a FCU in the loft.

To clip or not to clip and if to clip, how often to clip?

Cheers in advance guys.

 

[davy_owen_88]

What are you using the conduit for then if you are clipping the cables to the wall? Are you confusing conduit with capping?

 

[onzadog]

Possibly I am. The stuff I'm using just sits over the top and the sides will just squeeze under the plaster board. Is that called capping then? I guess it's just to stop the filler knife from catching the cable.

I suppose long term there is an arguement that it will make a rewire easier but how often does that happen? Every twenty years or so?

 

[Lectrician]

No need to clip if you are using the capping.

I would prefer conduit.

 

[onzadog]

Thanks for the info. I couldn't find any conduit shallow enough. Don't think the other half would take too kindly to unsightly bulges in the walls.

 

[Lectrician]

Chase it deeper you lazy bugger

Oval conduit is as shallow as capping TBH?

 

[onzadog]

So how his conduit better than capping? Do I really want to be bashing away at the breeze block with a cold chisel if I can avoid it?

If there's good reason, I'll do it, just wondering what it might be.