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Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 05 August 2002
Double-decker DIY store uses busbar
trunking
More than 2.5km of Canalis busbar trunking has taken only one week to install throughout the UK's first two-storey DIY superstore.
More than 2.5km of Canalis busbar trunking has taken only one week to install throughout the UK's first two-storey DIY superstore Power and lighting for the new B and Q Warehouse store in Sutton, Surrey, which covers 14,000m2 on two floors and has more than 40,000 products, is distributed using Telemecanique Canalis Fast Track busbar trunking
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 21 Jun 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Typically, Canalis Fast Track takes only a fifth of the time to install when compared with cable.
Lengths of prefabricated busbar trunking are simply pushed together and locked by tightening a single screw to complete mechanical and electrical connections.
The product is available in ratings from 25 to 250A.
B and Q, which has over 300 stores around the country, has standardised on Canalis busbar trunking for all its stores.
Alan Patton, Mechanical and Electrical Manager for B and Q, says: "We have used Canalis for many years in all our stores - it is a quality product and is readily available".
All the 31 B and Q stores built since March 2001 have been fitted with Canalis busbar trunking.
Flexibility is the main benefit that B and Q can achieve from Canalis: "Canalis gives us a flexible electrical installation, which is very important to us as a retailer", says Patton.
"It means that if we need to alter the layout of the store a year or so after its completion, we do not need to strip out the electrical installation and start again.
"Because there are tap off units every one metre, it is easy to change the layout of power sockets in the store to form new displays, perhaps for a new range of kitchens or bathrooms or for a display of power tools".
Darren Johnston, Engineering Supervisor for the new DIY warehouse's installation contractor LJ Monks, says: "Canalis is the market leader and rightly so - there is no other competing product to match it for speed of installation or flexibility.
It is very easy to install as it just plugs together.
The alternative systems are not as 'contractor friendly' and although they may be a little cheaper, they cannot touch Canalis for quality or speed of installation".
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