Safe zones for electric cables
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Electric cables are usually run in prescribed safe zones. Knowing where these zones are allows you to correctly install cables and help eliminated damage to them when drilling walls at a later date
The safe zones for cables concealed in walls are
- a horizontal zone within 150mm of the top of a wall
- a vertical zone within 150mm of the angle formed by two walls
- the horizontal and vertical zone to an electrical accessory
- where an accessory on the reverse side of the wall can be easily determined eg through a door or archway and the wall or partition depth is 100mm or less then the horizontal and vertical zones to that accessory apply to both rooms.