Way to simpler wiring

Our company currently manufactures a product that has been proven to greatly simplify wiring and which a number of security system installers have told us enables them to conceal their wiring more easily.

The product is called Cable Rod and is advertised on page 82 of the same issue.

Our product has been sold to electrical installers for three years and has won awards. The product itself is very simple consisting of flexible GRP rods that screw together and a number of complementary attachments. It is used to feed cables through voids and cavities that would normally be inaccessible, thus saving time effort and making the job simpler. Wires can be fed with ease behind walls , over ceilings and under floors.

I hope this information will be of use to you in answering the letter from Mr Murray. Would you like a free sample of Super-Rod so you can test it yourself?
Tristan Maidment, Super-Rod Ltd, tristan@super-rod.co.uk, (01495 792000)

MIKE LYNSKEY REPLIES...
Jeff ... I see your point about the switched keep but the idea is not new, it was banned by the police way back in the 1980s and I don't think the ban was ever rescinded, so it may not be acceptable. I would certainly not recommend it for a wooden or ali door because the mere act of kicking in the door removes the confirmation by pulling the bolt out of the keep. Plastic doors on the other hand with their multi-point locking and interlocking bolts may well be another story, it all depends on the design of the locking system. If the design is such that kicking in the door will dismantle the door without pulling the lock apart then you may well get away with it. My advice is to choose your locking mechanism very carefully. For anyone else reading this, unless you know what you are doing with UPVC locking mechanisms, don't even think about it. Choose carefully.

Tristan ... Thanks, but as I no longer install, and the NSI (my employer) must be seen to be totally impartial, I must decline your kind offer.