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Have a board change booked in for someone after a unsatisfactory EICR Seeing what others think of the report.
Seems to me they are either misinformed or looking for the extra work
It’s a second floor flat, he has written this.
C2 no rcd for cooker circuit
C2 no rcd for immersion circuit
C2 no rcd got socket circuits
C2 no rcd protection lighting circuit
For the sockets I would put C3 since it’s 2nd floor.
The others seem to be for cables in the wall which I would put C3.
Main bonding is 4mm which haven’t been coded.
The C2 lights are for cables in the wall since there is nothing in the tick sheet for rcd protection for lighting circuits and no code for rcd protection for bathroom circuits.
Which I would put C3 for all three anyway.
Seems instead of saying to them needs new bonding and rcd protection for lights Since no bathroom supplementary present, it would be worth changing the board at the same time since it old and only 4 ways and them given the choice,
They have just C2 everything to get a board change out of it.
It is a TN-CS and on the tick sheet they have put a C2 for rcd present for fault protection.
It also has a C2 for lack of rcd protection for cables cancelled in walls with Metal parts which seems unlikely for a domestic flat.
Has C2 for no rcd protection for mobile equipment for use outside Which again seems unlikely since it’s a second floor flat.
Don’t mind doing the board change since it makes it safer and I would probably recommend it,
Just wasn’t too impressed with the report interested in what others thought
 
Yes, but wasn't it a bit more specific in the 17th? I thought it set out C3 for sockets generally and C2 for bathrooms and external sockets?

I don't know where my copies of the 17th have got to at the moment.
It was the same in the 17th Ed.
 
Saying lack of RCD is a minimum of C3 makes sense, as clearly it is an aspect that could do with improvement in most cases, but it is not always a major source of danger to merit C2 rating, so one might hope that sensible judgment would be applied.

Hope maybe, not expect.
 

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