Broken cables in a wall

[blup]

Unless you're talking about surface-mounted trunking (which is pretty ugly) probably because there is no need/point in using trunking if it's going to be plastered over.

At the risk of taking the thread down another rural road, surely the point of trunking is to offer some protection from over zealous plasterers.

 

[EFLImpudence]

You are thinking of conduit - oval conduit.

 

[blup]

You are thinking of conduit - oval conduit.

Or pvc channel even

 

[EFLImpudence]

Not really.

 

[JohnW2]

At the risk of taking the thread down another rural road, surely the point of trunking is to offer some protection from over zealous plasterers.

That's why some people use buried conduit (or 'capping'), but a better solution than 'installing unnecessary things' is to employ a plasterer who is not 'over-zealous!

 

[JohnW2]

That's why some people use buried conduit (or 'capping'), but a better solution than 'installing unnecessary things' is to employ a plasterer who is not 'over-zealous!

I might have added that one should not rely on the plasterer (or expect him/her) to 'push the cable into the chase' with plaster/tools.

Instead, one should somehow at least temporarily secure the cable to the back/bottom of the chase (with clips, nails, bits of wire or whatever) - and, having done that, the cable should not be at any risk from the tools of even the most zealous of plasterers.

Kind Regards, John

 

[ebee]

When you do your own plastering or at least a basic fill of bonding, browning or one coat prior to finish coat for a plasterer it is best way or a very trusted plasterer you know very well then there is no problem. just leaving it completely to a. n. other can be fraught with problems

 

[JohnW2]

When you do your own plastering or at least a basic fill of bonding, browning or one coat prior to finish coat for a plasterer it is best way or a very trusted plasterer you know very well then there is no problem. just leaving it completely to a. n. other can be fraught with problems

Quite so. I would never dream of asking a plasterer (even a very competent one whose work I knew well and trusted) (let alone myself!) to plaster over cables in a chase unless/until I had done something to temporarily hold the cable well below the surface. It's surely just 'common sene', isn't it?

It doesn't even represent significant extra work since, even if one uses oval plastic conduit, one usually needs to do something to temporarily hold the entire run of it below the wall surface, prior to plastering.

Kind Regards, John