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  1. HappyHippyDad

    Coding for earths wrapped around each other?

    Hello all.. I have just completed an EICR. The earths for the ceiling lights are wrapped around each other (neatly and well, numerous times) and sheathed in old green sheath. They are then poked up into the ceiling void. This is obviously all wrong nowadays, but I can't decide if it's a C2 or...
  2. Z

    EICR Findings - Advice on Coding Required

    Hi everyone, I recently completed a domestic EICR and came across something unusual. There’s a 10mm² twin and earth cable directly connected to the 100A cut-out fuse at the service head. The cable is concealed within the client’s wall and reappears next to the consumer unit, where it connects...
  3. S

    2391 multichoice and Coding exam

    I done the course to gain my 2391 inspection and testing and passed the practical and written however I failed the multichoice and coding. I’m doing it with city and guilds. Can anyone help with some advice on how to prepare and revise for it if they have any good recommendations that they used...
  4. qwerty70

    UK Concerning EICR coding

    Out of interest, what are your opinions on coding what I call 'technical C2s'. We all know what the regs say, and going off that a C2 is a C2, simple.. but there are definitely times when that's a bit grey. For example... Exposed basic insulation is a straight C2 going by the letter of the...
  5. Sven666

    UK Inspection - Basic fault coding questions

    I have to re-sit 2391 photo coding assessment (having passed the rest), and have a couple of simple scenarios I was unsure about last time. (I know I will get different photos this time). I'm curious how everyone asses these: The task is to identify all faults (if any), likely outcome, and code...
  6. P

    EICR coding of 521.8.1 violations (3P over 2 cables)

    Another thread asked about two circuits sharing a common multi-core cable and regulation 521.8.1 was mentioned. A friend of mine has inherited the "opposite" issue of a 3P circuit spilt over two T&E runs. Yes, I know that is bizarre and not something you really would expect to meet. However...
  7. R

    Mains tails EICR coding

    Hello everyone, I'm wondering if someone could help me with some EICR coding. I am aware that bringing mains tails into a fire rated consumer unit through separate holes can lead to some issues. I encountered this exact issue today for the first time and i am unsure whether this is likely to...
  8. Chivers

    Opinions on Coding a Tubular Heater

    How would you personally Code a Tubular Heater that was fixed to a Wall Horizontally with Two brackets. The Heater being about a meter long but one bracket supporting it had the top half broken but supported by the Bottom section and the other bracket completely intact? Just opinions &...
  9. Q

    SPD coding on an EICR

    Hi All, just carried out an EICR on a rented property that has mains smoke detectors, there is no SPD fitted and as I understand any safety service should be protected by an SPD, what code would you give this.
  10. newfutile

    eicr coding (bathroom)

    How would you code a bathroom with all insulated fittings , no supplementary bonding and not supplied by rcd . The old BPG4 seemed to suggest its not required to report ,but it no longer states this in the latest BPG4
  11. D

    Disconnected CT's and EICR coding

    I'm having a bit of a brain fog moment (changing medication is such good fun!) and am looking for confirmation that I'm either right or talking nonsense. I've been to a job to have a look at why a set of ammeters aren't working, I've established the main reason they don't work is that someone...
  12. V

    Does BS7671 specify colour coding for conductors used for <50V

    Quick Question. BS7671 specifies colour coding for 230V AC conductors, but I've looked through it and I'm sure I can't see anything which specifies colour coding for <50V AC or DC conductors. I've done a lot of work with 12V/24V DC stuff and it's always been Red for positive, Black for...
  13. Doomed

    what coding would you give

    Outside walls with IP23 lights that even a short person like me can touch. (sign lights) What coding would you give? I would be tempted with a C2 but these are recently fitted lights by a professional design company on the outside of a public use building, they couldn't of made such an error...
  14. W

    Coding for unfixed ccu

    Was doing an EICR and pulled out the oven to have a butchers to see if there was a connection unit or not. Hob and oven connected into same outlet, which is fine. It wasn’t fixed to the wall but, it was just sitting behind kick plate. Assuming this is due to the cable coming in surface and the...
  15. W

    EICR coding question

    Came across this on an EICR and was wondering how everyone else would code it. Basically there’s a sangamo time clock that controls a contactor which switches a 3 phase DB for storage heaters, strange set up in a flat. So you’ve basically got 6mm cables in this sangamo time clock that are...
  16. S

    Max Zs Coding Question 80/100%

    Hi new member here looking for a bit of advice. I recently undertook a condition report of a building where the measured Zs at the distribution boards (board Zs) were above 80% of the max Zs value of the MCCBs in the panel board supplying them. In some cases it’s also above the 100% value. I’m...
  17. D

    Swa earthing and coding

    Hi all, we have a much discussed topic. Swa and the earthing of the amounting through a fly lead. What your thoughts and how would you code an Swa cable, the amouring is the cpc and no fly lead been taken too the earth bar (the Swa been terminated into a metal container) So are saying code 3 as...
  18. B

    More EICR coding questions.

    My wife is on the committee of the local village, and they have just had an EICR carried out. This came out as 'unsatisfactory' and accompanied by a quote for remedials totalling well north of £9000, although this does include a fire alarm system (which, AFAIK, no one has suggested is...
  19. J

    Coding question

    I will try to explain this as best I can, Did and EICR this afternoon, multi story apartment block DB's in flats are effectively submains from switch room in basement, Fed with 3 core SWA, 2 cores supply peak side and the 3rd core supplies off peak side. Problem is, is that the neutral is shared...
  20. Pretty Mouth

    Another EICR coding question

    Yesterday's EICR. The cut out and meter are in a damp cellar, and are fixed to a chipboard board on the wall. The chipboard has slowly rotted over the years, you now can push a pencil through it in places. The rather rusty fixings have pulled through it, so the board and everything fixed to...
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