Commercial kitchen containment

[davesparks]

Does anyone know what, if any, rules cover the type of containment which can be installed in a commercial kitchen?

I have always been under the impression that stainless steel conduit is required, but have never had anything to back this up.

I'm just working on a quote for a load of odd jobs which includes adding a few more sockets in a kitchen. And I most certainly haven't been given access to the other 3 quotes which have already been submitted, none of which include stainless conduit, they all are for standard galvanised (or galvaneised in the case of one quote!) so this has got me questioning my understanding.

 

[Engineer54]

The only time i've seen anything like S/Steel for surface installations is in factory food preparation and processing environments, never seen it used in commercial kitchens. Our hospital central kitchen(s) do not have surface electrical installations everything is contained within solid and stud walls or within the floor slabs with tiled or stainless steel finishes etc.

How many commercial kitchens are cleaned to the level some are hinting at here?? In my experience very few, and that even includes top hotel restaurants. If anything the opposite is generally the norm, until the H&S pays a visit, then things will improve ........for a while!!

 

[7029 dave]

As somebody mentioned , give them an price for both, I personaly have not used stainless steel.Bet it's very soft to set.?

 

[Engineer54]

As somebody mentioned , give them an price for both, I personaly have not used stainless steel.Bet it's very soft to set.?

Never used S/S conduit but generally S/S is anything but soft. I guess it depends on the conduits wall thickness. Be interesting to know how easy (or otherwise) S/S conduit is to thread also?

I've seen a full copper conduit installation in the Houses of Parliament with brass alloy conduit boxes, beautiful installation is was too all brazed/soldered connections to boxes etc. I'm sure some daft electrician in the future will still want to run in separate CPC's though!! lol!!

 

[123]

Never used S/S conduit but generally S/S is anything but soft. I guess it depends on the conduits wall thickness. Be interesting to know how easy (or otherwise) S/S conduit is to thread also?

I've seen a full copper conduit installation in the Houses of Parliament with brass alloy conduit boxes, beautiful installation is was too all brazed/soldered connections to boxes etc. I'm sure some daft electrician in the future will still want to run in separate CPC's though!! lol!!

S/S conduit is very soft to bend, don't recall it being too hard to thread tbh. A little tougher but not much.

 

[jay sean]

Used to work for a company that worked for Tesco, Asda etc, most of the food areas was PVC/metal tube that was chased into the wall.
But I do see PVC tube used more and more.

 

[Hellmooth]

I done kitchen refits at 6 primary schools over the summer, was all plastic tube and signed off no issues by the council.

 

[Silly Sausage]

PVC will not be allowed, everything has to be in shiny metal in all of their buildings for artistic reasons. (Welcome to the entertainment industry) the options are galv or stainless.
If I could get away with anything then id be using micc out of choice.

Get it all formed in steel, then take it down the Chrome platers.
Well shiny!