German Wiring , is it superior /?

[Dustydazzler]

So , like most things the Germans are generally considered the top of the class...Making Cars , engineering , Construction and so on...

What do we think of this new domestic install??

 

[123]

Good practice, but not what I was getting at. He over-wrote everything on the plans he drew. Every single word as it was written, he went over a second time - an obsessive perfectionist.

To be honest I thought he maybe just needed to buy a better pen?

 

[pc1966]

I remember seeing German wiring with the conduit and no joints as strange, but as Lucian says it is fine for support in light commercial / office style environments when used with sheathed cables instead of singles.

I think most of the EU has had RCDs of sorts for years as they seem to favour TT supplies, but never had to work on any as we would have any site work already done before we installed stuff, etc.

 

[pirate]

I don't like that idea of conduit with no bends etc...aesthetically speaking anyway, but yes, it does protect the cable where it needs protection, and the small areas of exposed cable are unlikely to be a problem...but for me, its one or the other...

Except in my common entrance hall where i am spurring off a communal socket to supply a feed to the bin store! I'm going conduit up the wall from the socket, then at height, clipped direct into a nice adaptable box, switching to H0Rn through the wall to the outside, clipped direct to external porch ceiling, then into bin-store and direct to microwave sensor bulkhead fitting.
It won't look pretty, but the 1mm t&e Linian clipped to the facing-brick wall 7' above floor level will be almost invisible, compared with trunking or conduit. It's horses for courses sometimes...

 

[brianmoooore]

I've done something similar to this in old farm outbuildings from time to time. Crumbling cob walls or stone and lime mortar make for very difficult fixings, so lengths of 20mm round conduit fixed about every metre, with T&E fed through.
These are small buildings with only a single light in each, and the odd socket. Levels keep changing, so no real prospect of a 'proper' conduit system with boxes and bends, etc.