Regulations for Installing Electrical Switchboard in Cabinet Recess with Sliding Doors

Question

Hello gentlemen and ladies.
The renovation is getting closer and closer to the end and the topic remains whether the electrical switchboard can be installed in a recess, which is covered with sliding doors (it makes a wardrobe), I have no other place in the hall and in this recess there is now a meter :)

How do the regulations relate to this?

Regards

maurycy123 · Accepted Answer

Re-read the author's post. Then speak up. Ibid. Where are they supposed to design them? Under the door?

kkas12 · Accepted Answer

Discuss with the doctor though I don't think it gets what the doctor writes. Read also the Ordinance on the conditions to be met by buildings ... Find anything there that will prove your distorted point of view. The author does not write about the hotel but about the apartment. In the hotel, the customer is warned against the fuse board. Qualified service is there.

retrofood · Answer

Take some more and hang something that is highly flammable, such as made of artificial fabrics. It will be great.

Wojtasekowski · Answer

In the recess there is a special place for the counter (it is enclosed with boards with a margin of 10 cm and there is no contact with clothes, there is no wood, only a door covers it. move it elsewhere.

stonefree · Answer

I suspect that during the first legalization replacement, ZE employees will issue a protocol with the recommendation to move the meter to an accessible place, so I would suggest doing it right away.

retrofood · Answer

There is no way is a famous fairy tale. You can tell it in kindergarten, the children will be delighted. There is no possibility during the renovation ... The horse would laugh.

Wojtasekowski · Answer

You write back very abruptly. Take the example of a colleague in advance that it is possible to prompt questions normally. Back to the topic. The load-bearing wall in the corridor is covered with a wardrobe, the rest of the exposed walls are built up to the edge of a brick plot, the corridor is narrow, so the surface-mounted box is out of the question. The meter was replaced once in the building and there were no restrictions from the power supply that it had to be moved.

retrofood · Answer

Forgive me, but after forty years of classes with construction and renovation topics, I am allergic to the statements it is impossible and it is not possible. I myself have a switchboard in a partition wall. There are also versions for plasterboard walls. So you can if you want to.

Wojtasekowski · Answer

retrofood then I have a different question. I can give the distribution box itself in the partition wall because it will fit, but what about the meter? I have a 30 cm door recess and it would be fine to stuff it there, but is it possible?
In the photo I marked what I mean.

bartekfigura · Answer

It is best to move the counter during the renovation to a generally accessible place, i.e. to the staircase. The only thing left is to fit the switchgear in the house.

maurycy123 · Answer

I often find switchgears hidden in cabinets in hotels. Someone designed it, someone took it. So you can.

kkas12 · Answer

No buddy, you can't. Only a madman can put a fuse board in the closet. Access to the board cannot be hindered.

maurycy123 · Answer

So the designer has no idea what he is designing? Whoever allows it to use, has no idea what it allows? The works manager has no idea what he is supervising?

Łukasz-O · Answer

I don't think the designer designed switchgears in cabinets. It is rather the fault of interior designers and investors who have little interest in the electrician.

maurycy123 · Answer

You're right. But still someone allows it to be used.

kkas12 · Answer

Probably like you Somewhere they saw something and it seems to them

bartekfigura · Answer

I carry out legalization replacements of meters and, unfortunately, quite often, especially in blocks, it happens that in order to replace the meter I have to sit in the wardrobe, recently even a guest took apart the entire kitchen furniture because the meter was completely unavailable. When designing a furniture layout, people think that, as you can see, the reading window is ok and it is enough, but they forget that the meter is replaced from time to time and access is needed. I have already cut GK boards a few times, completely destroying a piece of a nice wall ... Well, unfortunately life ... That's why you have to remember that the meter and security should be freely accessible ...

maurycy123 · Answer

Do not insult me. I have seen such things in more than one hotel (even a four-star hotel). Someone designed, someone picked up, someone allowed for use.

Łukasz-O · Answer

When buildings are made of furniture, nobody is there for a long time. Unfortunately, I also meet:

maurycy123 · Answer

Which does not mean that it cannot be built-up. It is important that there is access to it.

bartekfigura · Answer

And it is access that enables exchange, not only reading.

kkas12 · Answer

No, it cannot be built-in, i.e. in a closet with a lot of flammable things. Neither the meter nor the fuse board (and that's what the topic is about) You do not need to be an electrician to be aware of the potential danger posed by such a location. For me, those who design and install meter boards above the door also have a lack of imagination.

kkas12 · Answer

read maurica slowly and carefully. Until you understand Or maybe next to the door? Access to the board is to be unhindered. This means not to block it or cover it, and also not to look for a ladder when there is a sudden need to suddenly turn off the voltage. When you live to a ripe old age, you will understand the nonsense of such a location above the door, it is time to test RCDs. Maybe you will fall off the stool, pierce into what you are wearing on your neck and ask the question what kind of sheep is this up to. Maybe you should take part in sections and topics about which you have at least a vague idea. For here you are a complete layman.

maurycy123 · Answer

You so serious Then tell those who design the installation in hotels. So, in your opinion, I should install switchboards near the floor?

Łukasz-O · Answer

No, you can go a little higher:

kkas12 · Answer

You can even install a fuse board in the bathroom on your account. After all, for you, as you can see, there are no limits.

stomat · Answer

And can you imagine that this switchgear will not be covered with a cabinet? Not all fuse plates are as important as coat of arms shields and must be displayed in places of honor, centrally on the exposed wall. This is a virtually maintenance-free device, and I don't see anything wrong with placing it above the door. Even if I had to put on a ladder once a month. In practice, almost everyone can reach there without any ladder. And the counter in a shaft in the stairwell.

elpapiotr · Answer

Tell this to an elderly, lonely, infirm, or crippled person to pull a ladder up. I know, you will write immediately that the neighbor, that the native member, etc. PS. In one of the apartments, the so-called of the old building industry, electricians placed a pseudo-sign S2 under the ceiling of a 3.5-meter (or higher) apartment, because there was the main junction box. Without a large ladder (or a brush on a stick), do not move on.

kkas12 · Answer

Maybe not for everyone, but the electrician should know where the sign should be and where it shouldn't be. Or maybe put them in a recess and brick the recess and we have a beautifully exposed wall.

[Solved] Regulations for Installing Electrical Switchboard in Cabinet Recess with Sliding Doors

Post #1

Post #2

Post #3

Post #4

Post #5

Post #6

Post #7

Post #8

Post #9

Post #10

Post #11

Post #12

Post #13

Post #14

Post #15

Post #16

Post #17

Post #18

Post #19

Post #20

Post #21

Post #22

Post #23

Post #24

Post #25

Post #26

Post #27

Post #28

Post #29

Post #30

Topic summary