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1. The wall is being directly wet plastered, not dot & dab. 2. The wall is 90 year old 110mm brick single skin. Why spend time chasing horizontally into a wall when you can run back down to a big sub floor void and come back up. There is also now the problem that a network cable needs to be...

Also isn’t part of the point of conduit to allow cables to be replaced. But by creating an unnecessary gap between three lengths of conduit like that the cables will get plastered into the wall and will be impossible to replace.

Yes I have already seen the ‘safe’ zones. However regs are one thing and doing the right/best thing is different from just ‘it meets regs’. ‘Safe zones’ are not actually safe zones, they are permitted zones. Regs would allow you to fit a socket at head height and run the cable horizontally all...

I mean minimise cable runs across walls. On the basis anytime cables run across a wall behind plaster there is a risk someone screws or nails into one and kills themselves. Better to use an extra meter or two of cheap cable to minimise the risk of accidental death.

Hi, Concerned by this. Does this comply with Regs and is this best practice ? I expected cable to be run up vertically from below floor once for the left hand 2 boxes, and then back down again, and then vertically up to the 2 right hand boxes and back down again. This would avoid the horizontal...