Safety zones base of walls plastic skirting

[kernow]

The safety zones are vertical horizontal - 150mm from top or inside corners. It does not state at base of walls though.

I see a lot of people using the plastic skirting method to hide wires - is this a safe zone or not?

 

[ianmacd]

You mean putting the cables in the skirting? How would that be any different to trunking?

 

[kernow]

You mean putting the cables in the skirting? How would that be any different to trunking?

cause it looks like skirting and not like trunking - therefore someone is more likely to wack a nail through it not knowing there is cables inside the skirting.

 

[ianmacd]

But its not 'in the wall' but 'on the wall' in a trunking product so safe zones do not apply.

 

[Apache]

cause it looks like skirting and not like trunking - therefore someone is more likely to wack a nail through it not knowing there is cables inside the skirting.

So far in my life I have never felt the urge to add a few nails to my skirting, nor nail anything to them?

 

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So far in my life I have never felt the urge to add a few nails to my skirting, nor nail anything to them?

We guinea pigs are not very tall, I may on occasion get the urge to hang a picture on nail banged in my skirting board....

But then I think nahhhhhh!!

I'll just leave it standing on the floor instead! :C

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The safety zones are vertical horizontal - 150mm from top or inside corners. It does not state at base of walls though.I see a lot of people using the plastic skirting method to hide wires - is this a safe zone or not?

Two questions me thinks....

1/

Is the base of a wall a safe zone where you can bury a concealed cable within the fabric of the wall..

Answer:- NO.. bottom of the wall is NOT a safe zone..

e.g. you would not bury a cable in the plaster where someone is very likely to come along later and nail or screw some skirting onto the wall.

2/

Plastic skirting (or other similar trunking products) do they need to be installed in safe zones?

Answer:- NO... All forms of trunking, (skirting/dado trunking) fix to the surface of the wall and can be run wherever you so please..

That is providing you are not going to bury it and plaster over it!!! :^O :Salute

 

[m4tty]

+1 skirting trunking is not IN the wall so safe zones wont apply. Its the same as surface mounted trunking matey.

 

[kernow]

So far in my life I have never felt the urge to add a few nails to my skirting, nor nail anything to them?

Person fits new laminate flooring - prises skirting off wall, pushes laminate underneath skirting fixes back to wall with nails or screws. Voila.

 

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Little more than Voil

 

[ProDave]

Person fits new laminate flooring - prises skirting off wall, pushes laminate underneath skirting fixes back to wall with nails or screws. Voila.

But people NEVER fit laminate flooring properly.

The leave the skirting alone, fit the laminate with a gap around the edge, then fit a naff looking bit of half round beading to hide the gap.

 

[SteveT]

There is a great tool that you run along the existing floor and which guts a lovely gap along the bottom of skirting for you - it is a circlar saw that looks something like a cross between a router and a small ginder. The gap can be adjusted for different thicknesses of flooring product. I can't remeber what the trade calls it, but I did borrow one from a floor fitter friend once and did a superb job - no mouldings for me

Be careful not to cut the cable buried in the skirting!!!!!!!!!!