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I thought the whole point of the safe zones was to protect the end user and other trades. Is the 17th edition just a set of recommendations, i don't think so. Should the rewiring electrician note any departures? Should he inform the client? Should the electrician re-route any wires in non...

that doesn't really answer my question. Was I wrong to assume the very recently rewired and certificated property would have no wires in the doorcasings?

that doesn't really answer my question. Was I wrong to assume the very recently rewired and certificated property would have no wires in the doorcasings?

I cut through around 1 electric cable per year. I cut around 2000 architraves/door-jambs per year. The majority don't have cables behind On a couple of occasions the wires have been big ones (shower/cooker), no lightswitches or sockets to warn me off the possibility of cables I used to use a...

You mean like 25mm screws through 18mm of door lining?

It did strike me as odd that he states a piece of architrave could offer mechanical protection against nails and screws etc. Perhaps its just because I'm a chippy but when I see a piece of wood I think "I'm gonna nail that wood and if that don't work I'm Gonna screw it".

The spark says its ok to run cables behind the architrave because the architrave offers mechanical protection, and its protected with a 30ma RCD, and that I shouldnt cut the architraves too deep. What's your opinion? Is there a detector that will pinpoint a cable location? I have something...

It was in a hall, downstairs, switch is for bathroom light. Cable runs down from switch (via doorcasing) to below suspended floor. So the permited zone is just the width of the lightswitch verically or horizontally? The cable veers around 40mm outside the width of the switch (into the...

I just cut through another live wire while undercutting a doorcasing for a wood floor installation. It was just behind the architrave. The house (1970s) had just been rewired. The lightswitch was touching the arch, does this mean its ok to run the wire behind the arch?