Hidden cables for wall mounted TV

zac8

I'm getting some work done on the house and the builder has placed a piece of Wavin pipe in the wall to conceal power and hdmi cables for a wall mounted tv. There's just two holes either end at the moment, don't know if he was planning to put on face plates. Is this the best way to do this? My main concern is that it might not meet regulations to run a power cable in a wall like that?

josip

At least he put them in a Wavin pipe.
I found cables a previous electrician had plastered into a chased wall when I was drilling.
The RCD saved me from anything serious but I still got a faceful of plaster and burnt cable for my trouble.
As far as I know they should be in conduit, but it doesn't have to be armoured.

Stoner

Plastered into a wall cables need the conduit alright .

I assume he just left you the run , so he didn't put power cables in.

This is usually a nice feature he might have a power socket above this for the TV.
The conduit might only be for signal low voltage cables, SPDIF, HDMI etc and not mains power.

zac8

Stoner wrote: »

Plastered into a wall cables need the conduit alright .

I assume he just left you the run , so he didn't put power cables in.

This is usually a nice feature he might have a power socket above this for the TV.
The conduit might only be for signal low voltage cables, SPDIF, HDMI etc and not mains power.

There's no socket higher up the wall directly behind the tv. The way he's done it means the power cable is meant to run through the tube with the hdmi cables.

Sleeper12

zac8 wrote:

There's no socket higher up the wall directly behind the tv. The way he's done it means the power cable is meant to run through the tube with the hdmi cables.

Haven't a clue about building regulations on this but the advantage here for op is being able to add & remove cables at will. There could be a difficult type / size hdmi cable in a few year. You can fish in a broadband connection. Sounds like a handy set up to me.

dodzy

Surely there could be no issue here with the low power requirement of a TV?

Stoner

The regs require that there is a conduit there for power cables . Plastic is OK in a domestic arrangement that sounds like what you have.