Doing some work in a commercial restaurant/kitchen the builders had already boarded and plastered the walls meaning my only viable route is to use trunking high level to get cables to the points in need do I need to use metal conduit or trunking or can plastic be used some trunking will be in the seating area and toilet not much of it will actually be in the main kitchen area itself
Also the floor has be tiled and the client wants some appliances in the middle of the kitchen can I run some kind of trunking on the floor and use metal sockets under the appliances
 

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I know this won't help with the job but why are so many builders insistent on plastering etc before services have gone in. We were at a job the other day that has had a fire upstairs only, as they wasn't touching downstairs really they decided to put a new chipboard floor down all upstairs. I turn up and say great, what about the burnt wires in the floor void that we have to replace, the builders looked all confused and said but I thought it was just the lights you would have to do.

Now they have to repair/replace the downstairs ceilings as well. I don't get it, its not like its their first rodeo.
 
Plastic can be used, metal can be used, surface cabling can also be used, it is up to the person designing the install to establish what is required and what is best suited.

In a restaurant you are likely to need a different approach in the public areas to that in the non-public/working areas.
 
the builders had already boarded and plastered the walls
I don't doubt it, builders are brain dead idiots, you can use whatever containment you feel suits the room and conditions in the room, personally I would prefer conduit to trunking but trunking does get used a lot in all types of installations, sometimes ugly but still okay to use.
 
Just to throw a spanner in the works……

Trunking is clean lines, whereas conduit introduces many nooks and crannies that are going to get dirty.


Who was it that was so unorganised that finishing walls came before running services in the plans?

If it’s all empty partition walls, you might be able to run trunking high level and drop down inside the wall to hide some of the cables.
 
'Trunking' covers a lot of ground. Some is cheap with poorly fitting lid and gaps in which grease is likely to accumulate. Not sure if the OP has in mind some cheap mini trunking to hold a single cable - especially given the mention of running it across a floor (seriously?), but I'd be inclined to look at something robust carrying all circuits at high level, with individual circuits piped from it and nothing on the floor to present a trip hazard.
 
I wouldn't be feeding a few 3 phase appliances and various socket outlets


As a matter of interest/curiosity can you expand on that a bit? i.e. why etc.
I think tables for trunking/conduit capacity would rule out putting two or more 3ph items and other sockets in the same conduit. I would consider separate circuits for individual 3ph appliances. Of course you could use SWA direct to the appliance in this instance.
 
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I'd run a perimeter trunking high level then drop down in conduit with the U clip saddle to minimise need for cleaning the univolt maxi trunking is very good firm lid that won't let ---- get in
 
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