clipping the loft

[Evans Electric]

Right , I see now.

 

[Voltimax]

I like to clip my cables, always have, it's how I was taught when I served my apprenticeship. When dealing with lights in a loft, insulation isn't normally a big issue. An issue does arise however when dealing with bungalows. When you have a ring main and you're clipping it to the sides of joists and there's going to be, or is, more than 100mm of insulation, then you're going to be doing it in 4mm. 2.5mm gets derated to 17amps with this method and once a cable has been derated it has to be capable of carrying 20amps 433.1.5

 

[Nicky Tesla]

I was thinking of getting one of those staple guns that clip T&E for doing lofts as this would get me out the loft quicker. I can only seem to find staple guns for 1.5 and not 2.5T&E though.

 

[ianmacd]

I think that was dioscussed last year sometime. Maybe do a search on here.

 

[james2391L3]

If the installation was correctly inspected ,and the cables are just chucked over and not clipped surely comments on the installation would show up not fixed properly

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[ianmacd]

So are the cables not properly supported then?