What is the difference between trunking and conduit




















Channel vs. Trending Comparisons. Mandate vs. Ivermectin vs. Skinwalker vs. Socialism vs. Man vs. Supersonic vs. Gazelle vs. Jem vs. Mouse vs. You vs. Lubuntu vs. Virtual vs. Featured Comparisons Guidence vs. Togather vs. Maintenance vs. The UK regs are not very prescriptive about many of the things you mention - what you describe is recognisable, but its not the only way, certainly you can feed a floor box via round conduit if you wanted for example.

Add 20mm conduit to your list - but only for thin stuff like telephones or maybe the odd twin flex. Trunking is just square conduit with a lid - open top tray above ceilings is common, but in the UK now a clamp down on having cables slung under it held by nylon ties - some rather nasty entanglements in fires where the cables have drooped out of the ceiling and caught someone.

Similarly with plastic conduit or plastic trunking. Browse a UK suppliers website like TLC for an idea of the sort of stuff folk may use here In the UK the building construction is often very old - about a quarter to a third of our housing stock predates for example, so many of the techniques are really designed with more than a nod to what you need to do in a traditional masonry building with wooden pitched roofs. I suspect most of what you are looking at is embarrassingly brash and new by comparison.

You will also see armoured cable 'SWA' in the catalogues which can be used in ways you may be more used to seeing flexible metal conduit. There is probably more I have missed. Top : Bottom. Legh Posts: Joined: 17 December Its rare to see 50mm2 conduit, 32mm2 and 25mm2 and then there is 20mm2 for feeds to isolated appliances and lighting switch drops. For office jobs we might use Dado Trunking compartmentalized But otherwise there are a lot of similarities in the basics of containments.

Zoomup Posts: Joined: 20 February Hello Legh, isn't U. Rubber 2. Mini Trunking Self-Adhesive 6. Screw Fit 5. Ceramic 1.

Self Adhesive 6. Screw In 5. None 2. Coupler 5. External Angle 5. Flat Angle 5. Flat Tee 5. Internal Angle 5.

Stop End 5. Contractor Pack 4. Flexible Conduit 4. Cable Floor Protector 2. Left Intersection 1. Right Intersection 1. Side Tee 1. Customer Reviews and Up As the name suggests, open wiring methods involve installing wiring systems through which pipes and cables are exposed. For instance, utility poles can be used to install these, as can skylights. Most of the time, though, people choose to do this with conduit or trunks because of their ease of installation.

Trunking and conduit are also widely used in residential homes. With all this said, it's obvious that both of these installation methods have their own benefits and disadvantages. It's up to you to decide which one would be best suited for your specific premises.

As for commercial buildings, though, trunking and conduit are largely used for ventilation purposes.



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