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grebc 5 hours ago

Cheaper than building them behind concrete or brick.

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esseph 5 hours ago | parent [-]

I think the question is: why are they behind anything to begin with?

Conduit all the things and paint to match?

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accrual 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

This is essentially what some industrial-style lofts do.

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grebc 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Probably not legal.

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Fwirt 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Generally things that are illegal are illegal because enough people have maimed or killed themselves with it in ways that are not “common sense”. For example, you can’t simply have electrical wire stapled to the bottom of the joists in the basement because people might try to hang clothes off of them.

	▲	grebc 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You don’t need to explain that to me.

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globular-toast 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

People prefer how it looks and it's also more convenient to have a square room and no irregular protrusions stopping you pushing furniture up against the wall.

In the UK it used to be common for pipework to be exposed and painted. Electrical conduit is pretty common in "industrial" places like garages but the number of sockets people expect now would mean you'd barely have a flat wall anywhere.

The current preference is definitely for clean looking, square rooms. When pipes don't fit in the walls themselves, like soil pipes or around boilers, they are boxed in or hidden away in a cupboard.