Ground floor flat, 3 hallway down lighters not fire rated no fire hoods
take out a down light and I can look up and see the flat above floorboards
C2
take out a down light and I can look up and see the flat above floorboards
C2
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+1C2 here also.
Yes I'd say that is one of the clear times that a C2 is warranted. The ceiling should be fire rated plasterboard too in such a case, but that's a building regs issue rather than an electrical regs one.
There are two slightly different issues at work though - one is whether the fire rated lining that has been punctured to install the light has not been degraded, the other is whether the style of lamp could cause damage to the floorboards above if it overheated or caught fire.
I've seen some say that all downstairs downlights should be, even in a normal house, which I'm not so sure about, but when it's a separate dwelling (flat) above it's clearly a potential danger.
As I understand it (disclaimer: I may well be wrong), the "fire rating" part in description of most lights is to do with whether it will degrade the ceiling that it's in - not to do with whether it will catch fire itself if it overheats (though if it immediately melted I guess it would fail the other test too so they aren't completely separate)That’s given me a different angle to think about, I’d not considered puncturing the ceiling and degrading the fire barrier.
I’d C2’d it purely on the risk of fire to the above apartment should they catch alight.
Always good to get other opinions on it, thanks. ??
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