Need extra socket in bedroom, take cable outside?

ST1991

Risteard wrote: »

No. No. No.

Legitimate question, can i ask why?
We are planning on re-routing some wires (as the previous owner has run a socket from another, along the top of the skirting board in plastic casing, which is ugly) and i had planned on getting new skirting board which can case the wires.

Grenage

It's not a safe zone, but it's considered bad form by a lot of people.

Le_Kirk

In case someone puts a screw or nail through it maybe. I have seen skirting which is designed for telephone and computer cabling, low voltage so not deadly but still annoying if you drill or nail through it. However, when searching for hidden cable skirting I found some behind which you could hide central heating pipes and that makes more of a mess if you drill through those!

Doozergirl

ST1991 wrote: »

Legitimate question, can i ask why?
We are planning on re-routing some wires (as the previous owner has run a socket from another, along the top of the skirting board in plastic casing, which is ugly) and i had planned on getting new skirting board which can case the wires.

Because skirting boards are a really good thing to bang nails into. And things like flooring and gripper rods get nailed down very close to skirting boards.

Someone put our main gas pipe 2 inches from the wall. I had flooring contractors in last week and they drilled a 7mm hole through it. That caused huge panic when my house filled with gas in seconds. The contractor did drill further down than he needed, but it does go that screws and nails happen in that sort of area.

Ruski

I'd hate to see cable run that way - whether the cable is suitable or not!

If your sparky hasn't got a board plug cutter, go find someone who has and the access bungs may come in useful for other things at a latter date

HTH

Russ

ST1991

Doozergirl wrote: »

Because skirting boards are a really good thing to bang nails into. And things like flooring and gripper rods get nailed down very close to skirting boards.

Someone put our main gas pipe 2 inches from the wall. I had flooring contractors in last week and they drilled a 7mm hole through it. That caused huge panic when my house filled with gas in seconds. The contractor did drill further down than he needed, but it does go that screws and nails happen in that sort of area.

That makes perfect sense! (why didn't i think of that).

So this is the kind of thing that is handy for more (if i know it is there) but not for future owners!

TheCyclingProgrammer

ST1991 wrote: »

Legitimate question, can i ask why?
We are planning on re-routing some wires (as the previous owner has run a socket from another, along the top of the skirting board in plastic casing, which is ugly) and i had planned on getting new skirting board which can case the wires.

Those cable rebates are fine for speaker or other audio and data cables at best but not for power cables.

TheCyclingProgrammer

Le_Kirk wrote: »

In case someone puts a screw or nail through it maybe. I have seen skirting which is designed for telephone and computer cabling, low voltage so not deadly but still annoying if you drill or nail through it. However, when searching for hidden cable skirting I found some behind which you could hide central heating pipes and that makes more of a mess if you drill through those!

A drilled water pipe will make a mess but it's not going to give you a potentially fatal shock.

27cool

It's all very well drilling cut outs in the chipboard flooring panels. But that only works if the joists are running in the same direction that you want the cable to run. I suppose that you could do it if the joists were at right angles to the direction of the cable. But it would be a fiddly job involving at least one cut out between each joist.
I'm not sure why people think that putting the cable in a hollow skirting board is a bad thing.
I live a a fairly large house that I built myself. It has many, many feet of skirting board. In the 39 years that we have lived here there has never, ever, been a need to put a nail or a screw into any part of the skirting boards.
Even if you did need to put in a screw, you would be aware that there was a cable in the area, because you would have seen it bring installed.

Hedgehog99

Can't you just use an extension lead until you next re-decorate / get new carpets?

...assuming you're not wanting to run too many things off it.