New Kitchen Circuit - is it safe?

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Hello,

I had a new kitchen fitted some months back and have never had any certificate for the job as promised. I am looking to get someone to test the house before selling up next year. Please can someone confirm if it appears ok what the chap did?

Kitchen wall was knocked down to create large kitchen dinner. Kitchen was a ring main with four sockets. Two sockets in the dining room were fed off a radial circuit from the front room. These were terminated and put on to the ring main. Diagram below:

The two fused spurs (dishwasher and extractor fan), each one is fed off one of the double gang sockets.

Junction box feeding outhouse - it has one double socket with a fused spur off it for a light.

Circuit is 2.5mm T+E on 32A MCB with RCD protection.

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I would be chasing up the company for certification as officially work is not complete until certification has been given to the person demanding the work.

Also was this work notified to building control?

 

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Please explain the feed to outhouse, what cable is it? does it go outdoors? is there any isolation?

 

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could somebody please remind me why do we bother following all the regs and rules ...........................

 

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Is it safe?...only testing and commissioning could certify it as safe. Notionally it may be ok but without an EIC no-one will believe it.

 

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Actually posting here is pointless, to sell your house your better off with an EICR. Cant really sell it stating theres no certs but chaps from some forums says its cool

 

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Only the installer can verify certain requirements of the regulations
A example would be installing cable in safe zones,any inspection after installation by a n other cannot usually verify its correct

Consequently certification of the installation can only be generated by that installer

Anyone testing your installation after the event can only produce a report

 

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Would of only required a minor works would of taken them 10 mins after inspection/testing but then again probley tested with a socket tester in completion hahaha

EDIT if all within the regulations

 

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Planning on getting an ERIC done when we sell just wondered if it would pass/fail.

Feed to outhouse is 2.5mm T+E and cable goes directly into outhouse I.e it doesn’t run outside.

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Cameron1590 said:

Planning on getting an ERIC done when we sell just wondered if it would pass/fail.

Feed to outhouse is 2.5mm T+E and cable goes directly into outhouse I.e it doesn’t run outside.

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No one can say if it would be satisfactory or not get a local sparks in to do an EICR like you plan on mate

 

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Cameron1590 said:

Planning on getting an ERIC done when we sell just wondered if it would pass/fail.

Feed to outhouse is 2.5mm T+E and cable goes directly into outhouse I.e it doesn’t run outside.

Thanks

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From your drawing you have a spur off a spur ........... that is a no no to begin with.

 

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Murdoch said:

From your drawing you have a spur off a spur ........... that is a no no to begin with.

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Think the drawing is missleading, theres 2 double sockets with a FCU off each if I read his post correctly

 

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Madocks said:

Think the drawing is missleading, theres 2 double sockets with a FCU off each if I read his post correctly

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He means the outhouse.

 

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The feed to the outhouse looks like a spur from the ring to me. Is that correct OP?

 

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Spoon said:

The feed to the outhouse looks like a spur from the ring to me. Is that correct OP?

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In the opening post he wrote that the outhouse is a spur from the ring but that it feeds a double socket and then a spur for the light. So it is a spur from a spur.