Electrical installation - the norme

[minesthechevy]

Cant get a straight answer to this one...

When installing a new electrical supply in a house -

A. Is there a legal limit to the number of cables one can pass through a gaine?

B Can one make a hole in a gaine to allow a single cable to escape in a specific place - obviously, this escapee would be in a gaine of its own..... so another way of asking this question is - can one have junctions in gaines?

TIA

[giantpanda]

Hi!

You have to answer 2 questions:

1. If you have a new counter, your whole electrical installation will have to be checked. Inspector are sometimes very biased, and will indirectly compel you ( done by a French artisan ) to redo the whole installation.

2. From 1.1.2009, there will be for house sales and rentals a "diagnostic éléctrique".

Does that influence you on the question of doing it yourself?

Yours,

giantpanda

[minesthechevy]

Thanks, giantpanda, for your reply; I am well up-to-speed in most aspects of legislation as it will affect me.

However, being merely human, I do not know everything, which is why I asked the two specific questions in my original posting.

As it happens, I was nattering today with a French electrician who said that his understanding was that it would be 'bad practice' whislt not being outright illegal.

A nod being as good as a wink to a blind horse, I shall take this to mean I shouldn't do it.