House Rewire/inspection questions

[daftlad]

Skirting trunking is expensive, and requires a very flat surface, ie plastered to the floor and nice and smooth.
I recon you could use some of that metal tape that they use on pipe insulation to sheild between the compartments in multi compartment trunking. Having said that screened cat 5 is not that much more expensive than unscreened.
The last job I worked on required 400mm between data and mains even though both were in metal trunking, but the electrical engineers on that job were idiots. 
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[Pat_]

Wookey:  Hope this isn't too stale now, missed it when it was posted. I used Rehau skirting trunking in my new extension.

I used pvc conduit up to the back boxes. It was a great success and I can access all the wiring at will now. I couldn't find a distributor for the parts so had to buy them from the manufacturer, who only sold in tens, but they gave me 40% discount without any difficulty. We have all the usual extra services in them, although I haven't got as far as 1-wire yet.

I liked this approach as it is visually no different from wooden trunking (see picture at the bottom).

However in the new conservatory we have red brick walls which I didn't want to spoil, so there I used Starline trunking:
Not quite as discrete but very flexible if you want to move sockets around or add them.

[wookey]

That is very useful cheers. I also discovered this lot today: http://www.smarttrim.co.uk/ (terrible flash website)

Nice wooden skirtings mounted on pvc channel/clip, with cable-routing space. So you get nice-looking skirtings, not too much PVC, no visible fixings and cable-routing (though with limited space). Probably expensive, but I'll check it out as our local builders merchant stocks it.