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I need to take a spur to feed a security light, and one option is to spur off a socket in skirting trunking (office environment). I'm thinking I'll try to avoid this as the cable will somehow need to pass through one of the data compartments. I've seen a few ideas around to run mini-trunking within the data compartment to get the cable through, but to me this seems messy and non-compliant. Just wondering if anyone has any bright ideas or tricks that would keep things tidy.

Just interested really, as unless there's some great way of doing it that I haven't thought of, I'll take the spur from somewhere else.
 
I would just drill a 20mm hole down through the top to the power compartment and come straight out of there in 20mm conduit.
Either that or you could cut out a suitable sized hole in the top and come out of the top in mini trunking.
 
There shouldn't be any problem passing through a data compartment in the skirting trunking, it's the running in parallel over a distance where transference can occur. As Adam suggests you can use PVC conduit to pass through the data compartment(s) if not too crowded, or just use the cable and conduit out the top or mini trunking. Most data type cable these days, have an insulation level comparable to LV wiring so that shouldn't be a problem, but worth checking!!
 
Thanks everybody, that all makes sense - 20mm conduit passing through and out seems to be the way. Guess I was over-thinking the rules and regs aspect!

Cheers.
 

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