CU change and brown sleeving

[D Skelton]

Hi people, not sure this is the right section, but if I chose to do a CU change for a Part P scheme's assessment, I know I don't become responsible for the entire installation but is it my responsibility to ensure brown sleeving is placed on every switch live throughout the installation?

 

[Amp David]

No. Your responsibilty is with the CU change. I would mark it down as an observation on your cert.

 

[D Skelton]

Great stuff. Thanks for that buddy

 

[IQ Electrical]

Out of pure interest, does anyone oversleeve the red and black line and neutral conductors inside the board with brown and blue on a DB change?

 

[telectrix]

i bloody well don't. but wouldn't be surprised if it ain't in the amendment. 2nd thoughts. think it won't be. give 'em an excuse for another amendment in 2 years time.

 

[IQ Electrical]

i bloody well don't. but wouldn't be surprised if it ain't in the amendment. 2nd thoughts. think it won't be. give 'em an excuse for another amendment in 2 years time.

It's not in the amendment and I see no reason to do it but I bet some do!

 

[mark80]

Aslong as the appropriate mixed colours sticker is on the D.B, then i don't see no problem

 

[telectrix]

if the installation is in red/black. i would red sleeve the switch lives, if anything, because that is the coloiur they should have been sleeved. on a CU change, though, i would just note it.

 

[somersetsparks]

Hmm.. was always told by our company that if its old colours then you have to sleeve with old colours. Oversleeving red/black is strictly forbidden on alot of big jobs, as is sleeving yellow with brown sleeving etc.

 

[Deleted member 26818]

When the changes were introduced, there was a time period where either colours could be used, but whichever colour was chosen, it had to be used exclusivly throughout the installation.
A large number of installations haduring that period had colours over sleeved.
On one installation, I remember the main contractor wanting the four old colours on 3P&N to be oversleeved, whereas my company just wanted to sleeve the red and yellow.

 

[the pict]

I had to move a CU during a house renovation inside the box I used as a junction enclosure I sleeved off on the inside to match the extended cable Why ? it just looked better, I must have had a LLeweyn Bowen moment bloody cuffs got in a right state.
Pict