Hello,
I’m a DIYer and am adding some fire rated spot lights to my kitchen ceiling amongst some other alterations to the various electrical sockets and switches. I’m also installing the kitchen myself to keep costs down.
Before I carry on I know that the kitchen is a safe zone and so building control will be out to inspect the work, notifiable, under part P. £340 later ... in hindsight it would probably would have been easier to get a spark out but that is by-the-by now. I’m enjoyjng the process none the less.
I’m in a spot of bother though (and need your help).
I needed to move the switch from the right hand side of the door, to the left, as my new double oven housing will be placed right where the original switch was located. Fairly straight forward it would seem! Or not ...
I started to cut a hole in the ceiling to reveal 4 enormous joists preventing me from getting the cable into the void where the existing ‘common’ loop is.
I think that one possible option would be to repair the ceiling, create a channel and tack the switch cable to the bottom of the 4 beams (by creating a small channel in the plaster directly above the switch and then plaster the cable in). I would really rather not use this option - dispite seeing it done before (by a spark) and from what I can gather is ‘technically OK’ based on various searches and discussions.
Would I be able to run the cable horizontally in the 150mm ‘safe zone’ and out along the left hand side of the wall (surface mounted) and then up into the ceiling void where I can run the cable to the common?
The wall on the left hand side I’m happy to have the cable on the surface as all of this section of the wall won’t be visible anyway as I’m installing floor to ceiling cupboards.
Thanks in advance
Adam
I’m a DIYer and am adding some fire rated spot lights to my kitchen ceiling amongst some other alterations to the various electrical sockets and switches. I’m also installing the kitchen myself to keep costs down.
Before I carry on I know that the kitchen is a safe zone and so building control will be out to inspect the work, notifiable, under part P. £340 later ... in hindsight it would probably would have been easier to get a spark out but that is by-the-by now. I’m enjoyjng the process none the less.
I’m in a spot of bother though (and need your help).
I needed to move the switch from the right hand side of the door, to the left, as my new double oven housing will be placed right where the original switch was located. Fairly straight forward it would seem! Or not ...
I started to cut a hole in the ceiling to reveal 4 enormous joists preventing me from getting the cable into the void where the existing ‘common’ loop is.
I think that one possible option would be to repair the ceiling, create a channel and tack the switch cable to the bottom of the 4 beams (by creating a small channel in the plaster directly above the switch and then plaster the cable in). I would really rather not use this option - dispite seeing it done before (by a spark) and from what I can gather is ‘technically OK’ based on various searches and discussions.
Would I be able to run the cable horizontally in the 150mm ‘safe zone’ and out along the left hand side of the wall (surface mounted) and then up into the ceiling void where I can run the cable to the common?
The wall on the left hand side I’m happy to have the cable on the surface as all of this section of the wall won’t be visible anyway as I’m installing floor to ceiling cupboards.
Thanks in advance
Adam