In your country, do you use pipe to run wire through very much?

[joesparky]

can you bend pipe?

 

[Grant1987]

I wouldn't argue against practices commonly employed in other parts of the UK, although the use of conduit here does have certain advantages - primarily the ease with which a cable could often be replaced if necessary.

If it’s been rewired then shudn need to be replaced same thing with capping really so no advantage with conduit

 

[pc1966]

Different coloured conduit... but all their currency is the same colour ???

Worse - the same size as well!
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This house is three years old and round PVC conduit will be bushed into every box. There would be no issue with undercutting on price as every electrician will be expected to do this. As one previous poster had commented; an electrician would be laughed or thrown off site if they placed capping over cables, in place of conduit.

It is good practice for many reasons!

And if it is part of local building regulations, or standard terms of contracts to install stuff, then you get it done properly everywhere. Sadly the folk putting stuff in (or defining how it should be done) are rarely the folks having to make repairs or rewires in the future.

 

[Mike Johnson]

Back to the Buildabilty issue, "Quantity Surveyors" are the bane of all trades.

 

[Megawatt]

Different coloured conduit... but all their currency is the same colour ???

Yes but it fits nice in the wallet ?

 

[norcal]

For some more pipe work, check out conduit ---- at reddit.

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[Megawatt]

For some more pipe work, check out conduit ---- at reddit.

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@norcal I’m not impressed when I run conduit there is no discrepancies in the gaps between my conduit and I measure center to center. Some of it looked good but the conduit on the right coming out of the top of that one Panel personally I would have made them tear it out and start over.

 

[Mike Johnson]

For some more pipe work, check out conduit ---- at reddit.

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Personally I thought the changes from vertical to horizontal are a work of art, thanks for posting.

 

[Dustydazzler]

Would it not be better to run fewer but bigger conduits...?
I have seen videos of these type of conduit installations in America with dozens of small gauge conduits running from box to box with one cable per conduit.
seems such a waste of raw materials (not to mention labour) when you could run 4 or 5 circuits in one slightly bigger conduit....

 

[Mike Johnson]

It would not just be a slightly bigger conduit to accommodate 4 or 5 circuits if you kept to the requirements for % dia free space inside the conduit.

 

[Dustydazzler]

there is that , also drawing multiple cables together runs the risk of burning / chaffing the basic insulation.
i still can’t help thinking if I have to get 5 cables (circuits) from A to B there must be a better solution than 5 completely separate conduit pipes...

 

[Mike Johnson]

It was in the USA so no T&E, five circuits = fifteen cables?

 

[westward10]

Must admit some of that is a work of art. There is obviously some real pride in your work taking place there.

 

[Dustydazzler]

It was in the USA so no T&E, five circuits = fifteen cables?

potentially , unless they could share one oversized cpc ... or use the conduit as a cpc but I’m not sure if that is allowed over there ...

they do have Romex cable which is very similar to our lsf twin & earth cable

 

[Megawatt]

potentially , unless they could share one oversized cpc ... or use the conduit as a cpc but I’m not sure if that is allowed over there ...

they do have Romex cable which is very similar to our lsf twin & earth cable

I’ll have to say guys and girls that their is no cables in them conduits. We pull all single stranded wire. The big pipes probably have bigger wire in them for feeders. I’ve seen 100 # 14 control wires in some of the bigger conduits. I’ve wired a lot of European equipment and a lot of times they will bring there own cables with them from across the pond and if that’s the case we use tray cable. We can’t mix analog with digital inputs and outputs in the same conduit and power feeders in there own conduit and communication cat-5 cables in there own conduit. We do not like pulling European cables in conduit because the outside diameter of the cable makes us have to run at least 3 inch conduit. Yes most of that conduit looks awesome but I’m a perfectionist on conduit and I seen some conduits that the gap between Some of them is not consistent. I’ve worked for Germans, Italy, Finland engineers, etc who all use cables. In the US on a job that big mostly we have to go by the prints who dictates what we do. On big jobs we have people that just run conduit and nothing else, people who mount all the pull cans and panels. It’s so much different over here.

 

[Dustydazzler]

I’ll have to say guys and girls that their is no cables in them conduits. We pull all single stranded wire. The big pipes probably have bigger wire in them for feeders. I’ve seen 100 # 14 control wires in some of the bigger conduits. I’ve wired a lot of European equipment and a lot of times they will bring there own cables with them from across the pond and if that’s the case we use tray cable. We can’t mix analog with digital inputs and outputs in the same conduit and power feeders in there own conduit and communication cat-5 cables in there own conduit. We do not like pulling European cables in conduit because the outside diameter of the cable makes us have to run at least 3 inch conduit. Yes most of that conduit looks awesome but I’m a perfectionist on conduit and I seen some conduits that the gap between Some of them is not consistent. I’ve worked for Germans, Italy, Finland engineers, etc who all use cables. In the US on a job that big mostly we have to go by the prints who dictates what we do. On big jobs we have people that just run conduit and nothing else, people who mount all the pull cans and panels. It’s so much different over here.

in the u.k we generally pull single cables (wires) in conduit pipes , you do get some people pull in Romex style cable in conduit but that generally more in houses.
europans do pull in round cable in their conduit but that’s more flexi plastic type conduit tubing I think...I have seen Europea conduit that doesn’t even have bends / elbows