As I've mainly done site work and moved into domestic recently, I'm a bit rusty on stuff like this, but if I'm adding a loft PIV unit to an existing lighting circuit via an unswitched fused spur, if the lighting circuit has no RCD protection am I allowed to install it?
Same question for if...
So I'm getting various responses to this depending on how things are interpreted.
Here's a scenario:
Assume property is a tenanted property.
Assume cables are run buried in walls/under plaster (depth unknown).
Which of these circuits merit a C2 if they are not RCD protected.
1. Lights
2...
Did a couple of inspections on 2 x 2 bed ground floor flood damaged flats today, only 4 circuits in each, bizarrely one socket circuit and 2 lighting circuits and one cooker circuit in each. Just a 4 way MCB consumer unit in each without RCD protection on any circuit, built and wired in the...
I am a landlord and my managing estate agent just recently organised an electrician to carry out EICR. Came back as unsatisfactory, no RCD protection on: lights, smoke alarm, door bell and immersion heater. There is RCD protection on sockets and cooker. Electrician suggests changing the...
We have to put two new tower sockets in to a office at work.
At the moment we have two towers but four sets of four desks.
The two sets of four without towers are fed via extension leads hence the need for two new towers.
I have been told by our tech guy we aren't fitting RCBO on the two new...
8.5K shower unit is wired to plastic box consumer unit to 30 amp cartridge fuse with no RCD
It’s the original shower installed when the house was built around 1995
The shower is still fully working after all these years, never blowing the cartridge fuse before
Am I right to presume RCD wasn’t...
Can anyone help me with this
I have a old plastic consumer unit with one rcd with lighting and cooker not on rcd
The original lighting circuit has been altered over the years and 16 non fire rated spotlights put in the kitchen with all earths cut out
2 bathrooms 5 spotlights in each not iP...
Hello engineers. I did EICR in two bed rented flat in a block of flats. There is old plastic fuseboard just above the entry door. There are only bs1361 fuses inside and no RCD. All luminaries are plastic.The board and wiring are in good condition. Any advise on how should i code that?
During an EICR meter tails were found entering the cavity and coming down a stud wall to a consumer unit about 5 meters (direct distance) away.
they do have an isolator but no rcd or other protection .
as cables buried in a wall have to have (RCD) Residual Current Device at 30mA and generally...
Hi all, have just ordered my first EICR ever for a studio to 1-bed conversion flat in London. It cost a little less than £80 and the electrician had great reviews on the site I booked him on. It came back with 4x C2 and 1x C3, all related to RCD. The summary was unsatisfactory with comment "No...
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I live in a rental in scotland and have recently had an EICR carried out. I have an old fuse wire fuse board on a wooden plate with no rcd or breakers, I had assumed this would be a C1 or C2 but this came back as a C3. Surely this is incorrect if the plastic fuse boards are C3s surely no...
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I have an Unsatisfactory EICR with the following observations. The flat block was built in 1930 (Art deco) and it was refurbished in 2010 ( I suppose some rewiring was done) Contacted the inspector who charged 104 pounds for one bed in London and the report comes back unsatisfactory mainly...
Got an EICR to do tomorrow so just getting a headstart on paperwork .. customers sent me a few pics , straight away fuse board is OAF .. no RCD ... Now .. how do I code this ? And what's your thought process ..
I have it in my head that , should a customer be able to run an extension lead out...
Evening all.
Doing a EICR in a rental today and presented with this.
installation date is 1992 and there seems to be no records since.
At some point in the recent past someone has added a electric shower circuit. Obviously a smash and grab merchant as no earth sleeve and it was the same in...
Evening all
I went to quote a job a few days ago. On a TT system and an old Contactum board no RCD protection.
Client wants power to her garden building.
Now the OCPD and the leg supplying the building don't need RCD protection. A new DB will be installed in the GB and an earth rod.
Do I need...
Outdoor lighting circuit (domestic) without 30mA RCD additional protection, what code would you give it?
I'm leaning toward C2 as (A) outside lights have a habit of filling up with water, and (B) anyone touching it may be in contact with the bare ground.
What are your thoughts?
With all the rush for landlord EICR's lately been getting few enquires and failed certs sent over to me to quote on remedials. Realise you need a greater grasp of regs and experience to do do eicr's on regular basis so not venturing out doing many of these myself at the moment but do find it...
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I've recently had an EICR done on my residential let. The property is a 1-bed flat in London on the 8th floor, about 10 to 15 years old.
The EICR has not been issued but the electrcian has said as things stand, it is unsatisfactory with a C2 rating. This is due to the the fuse boxes did...
Firstly sorry if this has been asked before. Carrying out alot of EICRs because of the new rental laws. Keep coming across boards with just one RCD. Lighting circuits not protected normally I issue a C2 for this and had no problems but one landlord who thinks he knows everything has queried my...
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