Basement made of watertight concrete - switch problem

Hello,

we are getting a residential basement made of WU concrete and I would like to know how others solve the problem with the electrical installation, their switches and sockets. With WU concrete, only surface mounting is possible, which is fine for the utility basements for us, but we will also have two living rooms and we cannot install everything on the masonry interior walls. Therefore, the question is whether one can or should make a pre-installation wall. To solve the problem, I was thinking of a drywall.

I am certainly not the only one with this problem, right? How did you solve it?

Hello,

I don’t quite understand the problem now.

What is your basic cellar wall construction?

We have a cellar made of waterproof concrete with double-shell precast walls, which were assembled on site and then poured with concrete.

Our sockets and switches in the entire cellar are without exception "flush-mounted", meaning they are in the concrete wall itself.

For this, it was necessary that the empty conduits or cables were laid between the assembly and the pouring of the walls.

Regards,

Dirk

Hello Dirk,

thanks for your feedback. I didn’t know it was possible to intervene [nochvdazwischen]. Our information was that only surface-mounted installation is possible in the basement. Then I have to ask about it again.

Question: Are all interior walls also made of concrete? If not, can at least a majority of the cables, switches, and sockets be installed there in the usual way. Otherwise, see Doc.Schnaggls.

These living spaces are no longer insulated? At our place, about 5cm of insulation was added again on the exterior walls and the wiring was installed there.

: Not necessarily. Our basement is insulated from the outside. So the walls in the living rooms are just normal plastered and wallpapered concrete walls.