To box out or not to box out

[Sav]

Hi again guys,

Hope your all well.
Can anybody clarify the following please.

We are wiring a kitchen / dining room extension in a victorian house.
The owners want additional sockets in the living room which is no problem. NOW THEN, they want the new sockets to be level with the existing ones, which are cut into the 8 inch high original skirting boards !!

According to the regs, new builds and refurbs, cannot have sockets in skirting boards for fire hazzard reasons, is this correct or can I put new sockets into the skirting boards?? Would you ??
The ccu is a wylex unit non rcd, just mcb breakers, the new board we are fitting for the extension is a 17th edition split load RCD board (they dont want to pay extra to upgrade their wylex one ).

Thanks guys for all your help and advise so far. You are the best !!

 

[padmore12345]

you can put them into skirting boards if you use fire rated boxes. you can get fire rated dryling boxes that have an intumescent strips in the top and bottem of them. in the event of a fire they expand and fill the void and starve the fire of oxygen. As to the height you should use to comply with part m of the building regs eg accessories inbetween 450mm bottom of boxes 1200mm top of boxes this can be ignored in the case of rewires, refurbs as long as the height of the accessory is 'no less accessible' then it was before. eg same height as old sockets.

 

[beaver74]

you can put them into skirting boards if you use fire rated boxes. you can get fire rated dryling boxes that have an intumescent strips in the top and bottem of them. in the event of a fire they expand and fill the void and starve the fire of oxygen. As to the height you should use to comply with part m of the building regs eg accessories inbetween 450mm bottom of boxes 1200mm top of boxes this can be ignored in the case of rewires, refurbs as long as the height of the accessory is 'no less accessible' then it was before. eg same height as old sockets.

i,ve never see any thing about not fitting then in any type of woodern item as you will have a metal enclosure but yes on a new build they should be at new hieghts