UK Do you keep cable slack in the distribution board or hide it in the trunking? And why?

[mak]

What’s the easiest and safest way.

 

[James]

We need an option for both / either
as it depends on the circumstances

 

[LeeH]

A lazy loop in the board.

 

[Dustydazzler]

Depends how much 'Slack' there is on the cables. I do like to leave a little bit of slack in the board and maybe push a few inches back into the trunking. But if there is a lot of slack I would actually trim the cable down a bit

 

[littlespark]

If I can, I will.

You always wish that whoever fitted the 4 way wylex fuse board in 1973 that you’re now taking out had the foresight to know you’d need a bit more cable length to reach that left hand side RCBO, and left you a bit spare to pull through.

 

[Dustydazzler]

If I can, I will.

You always wish that whoever fitted the 4 way wylex fuse board in 1973 that you’re now taking out had the foresight to know you’d need a bit more cable length to reach that left hand side RCBO, and left you a bit spare to pull through.

Its funny , when I am do any domestic board change is once the old board is off I give all the cables a pull to see how much ( if any ) slack is on them I always breath a sigh of relief if I get 3 or 4 inches pull through as it means no jointing / extending the cores

 

[Simon47]

Its funny , when I am do any domestic board change is once the old board is off I give all the cables a pull to see how much ( if any ) slack is on them I always breath a sigh of relief if I get 3 or 4 inches pull through as it means no jointing / extending the cores

If only ...
When I bought out rental flat, I swapped the dangling BC pendant for an enclosed unit in the bathroom. Cables clipped to the timber in the ceiling and zero slack - they reached the terminals of the rose and that was it. Someone, somewhere, would have had a burning sensation in his ears that day - I was certainly questioning his (or her) parentage.
The annoying thing is, there's room to push a few inches back, but they didn't.

By contrast, there was enough slack to change the CUs, just had one wire to extend in the house.

 

[Dustydazzler]

If only ...
When I bought out rental flat, I swapped the dangling BC pendant for an enclosed unit in the bathroom. Cables clipped to the timber in the ceiling and zero slack - they reached the terminals of the rose and that was it. Someone, somewhere, would have had a burning sensation in his ears that day - I was certainly questioning his (or her) parentage.
The annoying thing is, there's room to push a few inches back, but they didn't.

By contrast, there was enough slack to change the CUs, just had one wire to extend in the house.

I know some domestic sparks (a few years my senior) who say they were taught to leave absolutely no slack on the ends cutting everything to exact length. Presumably to save money on cable back in the day.

I try my best on all my jobs to leave some slack somewhere either in the box or poked in the ceiling or in the wall etc

 

[westward10]

Many years since I fitted roses and battens but was always told to clip near to them on the joist then push a loop up for future changes.