well gary i have to say i'm quite pleased with our efforts in the office today we've created
what's possibly the world's shortest power pole for offices with really low ceiling
heights using this system by Atkore it's the Marco power poles now it is actually the first
challenge when something like this turns up is actually how do you cut it that's what we think
about and if you look at the extrusion behind us this is enormous and that was our first task but
where were we using this really gary yeah so i went online started searching some photographs
of other examples of power poles and i managed to find one that had like a hoover attachment that
came into a plastic pole to bring down data and power into the office and it looked awful yeah
and you do see a lot of efforts that people make to try and keep the the office environment clutter
free but we think this system here by marco is is a great system we're gonna have a look at it
in a while um but yeah those open plan offices isn't it that's that's the main thing that people
think about when it comes to power poles but here's a here's a little bit of inside tip here
i've actually used these in factory environments in the past right okay in what form well you
know if you think of factories particularly once probably some electronics or clean room conditions
where you want to create you know bring lots of services down to a machine or something like
that so i've used these with obviously power data but then some of the other things that machines
use compressed air and some rare gases all right so when you say clean air you mean removing all
those trip hazards that could be on the floor with those hoses yeah or sometimes people make
their own efforts with obviously basket and cable trays and things like that but i think actually a
power pole in those scenarios can actually be a great solution let's see the skills in order to
make our miniature version of the power pole which is identical to the skills you require you're not
backing yourself with the cut then you've got the set square and pencil out well it's an aluminium
profile so it is pretty robust it's certainly a lot more robust than some of the pvc based
extrusions that you see used for power poles so i want to try and do his best job i can go so
i'm going to use the milwaukee all right so a full length would be 3.6 meters you can get a one meter
extension and they will do special projects where they'll do a five-meter length is that right yes
well i'd call pretty flexible on this so imagine you had a project where if very high ceilings or
you had a lot you required a lot the same length and you didn't want to cut on site um yeah full
game this is the saturn aluminium finish so that sort of gray finish with the the contrasting white
uh pvc lid uh you can also get it in powder coated white as well if you wanted everything to be white
so went nice and easy through the first section obviously there's a lot more material in the
center section once we're through that we'll go quick again won't it yeah so it's a double-sided
extrusion the same on both sides but you're right there's quite a bit of weight in the middle
uh where the structural elements are okay i'd like to apologise now i didn't quite catch it did i
again if you can't cut the edge straight you have got some wiggle room in terms of this floor boot
that's obviously fixed to the floor clues in the name um obviously overlaps the the cut edge
as well um i'd probably advise putting the the the smooth edge at the bottom that comes with
the extrusion and then if your edge is a little bit raggy putting it on the ceiling one because
we'll see another accessory coming soon so this bracket here is going to allow us to jack up and
jack down to go say towards that concrete ceiling to make that fixing is that what's happening by
winding the bolt up and down yeah so this goes in between say where you'd have a suspended ceiling
and a concrete slab and then again you can just create that so it's jacked between the floor and
the ceiling then when you're done you just lock off with this screw that we've got here into that
structural element so the ceiling shroud comes in now so we've come through a suspended ceiling tile
and this will cover that area up why not yeah so you can clip this on uh you know before or after
you put the lids on obviously when you finish the wiring and that again hides the possibly you can't
cut your ceiling tile as neat as it should be and we tried to show that with a bit of osb in this
shot here haven't we yeah so when were the boxes now what standard depth do they come in uh 25
and 35 millimeter boxes to allow for obviously different types of wiring accessory again just
uh quite plenty of knockouts on there andy also is the option to buy a pre-made 50 millimeter spacer
if you can't cut your lid straight or you're trying to get that exact distance between each
of your accessories i like the idea behind that clipping ever so satisfying when they do clip in
and we get it under the lid is there any colors that we can have the lid in other than white
yeah so if you can if you're working on a project that requires disability discrimination directive
compliance or dda you can get a charcoal lid so you have a contrast with the socket so we're in
certain dividers now so we can segregate the band one and band two we're going to put cat
5 cable in in band one we're going to segregate it from band 2 which are 230 volts for our sock air
you could have three three compartments in there we've only got two and we're gordon yeah so again
there's the the mirrored mirrored side as well you could put an additional divider in
uh again lots of options interesting it is the same lid and the same back boxes that we saw on
the bench trunking that we looked at in a previous video if you haven't seen that i will leave a link
in the description um so again if you're using Atkore across a project it'll match but you can
also interchange the components if you're working upgrading or changing installation in the future
yeah it's really clever so it's just case now putting the lid in again it will slide just under
so we can fit it nicely into position and there's something again quite satisfying about clipping
it down and having it held in place yeah the aluminium is yeah incredibly robust it's very easy
to assemble this system so one more section on the bottom and this shows you obviously as we go into
the floor boot there that we can slide it up and down as well can't we so we clip it into position
you've got a little bit of play on that one as well so maybe you could have cut it a little
bit better than that gordon but it's not bad effort you seem to be getting a dab hand with
that milwaukee you alluded to in the video as well that it was two-sided didn't we so
shall we spin it around so we can see that yeah so there's the finished side and there's the yeah the
unfinished side obviously so on your cables in for that first fix part of the installation and
this is incredibly solid as i say we can't so stress that enough
you do see versions of this that are just made you know out of uPVC uh that can obviously twist and
things like that this this isn't going anywhere once it's checked in against the against the
ceiling it isn't but as always we're interested in your feedback are you currently working in
offices are you currently working with power poles you've got any top tips for the community can you
leave those in the comments below have you been working with this marco power pole and you want
to leave some feedback about that as well and we'll try and get back to as many as we can