EICR ....I was amazed !

[Luke238]

Hello,

I am by no means an expert but having just successfully completed my 2391-52 I was interested to be passed this EICR and see some of the observations.

I have removed the inspectors details but he/they are NICEIC approved contractors and have been in the industry for many years.

I appreciate that it is the inspector who makes an assessment of all the defects and reports and categorises them as he see's fit but we are given guidance as to what should be a C1.

No RCD protection is often discussed on this forum and I am aware that if the installation has no RCD protection but all supp bonding is in place then its a C3. If there is no RCD protection and no supp bonding then its a C2.

This installation has reportedly got supp bonding but no RCD so has been coded C1 ??

No isolator switch on cooker circuit C1 !! . I wasnt aware that it needed an isolator switch, I understood it needed a means of safe isolation which could be at the CU at the MCB albeit inconvenient.

 

[davesparks]

Perhaps the person carrying out the report was working to 18th edition ‘new installation’ standards, and forgetting that the installation only needs to be compliant with the regs at the time of install? That might explain some of it?
Who knows.

This is incorrect, an EICR is carried out to the current regulations. However only non-compliances affecting electrical safety should be recorded and given a code.
Non-compliances which do not affect electrical safety, such as red, yellow, blue phase colours do not get coded.

 

[Marcus Vaughan]

This is incorrect, an EICR is carried out to the current regulations. However only non-compliances affecting electrical safety should be recorded and given a code.
Non-compliances which do not affect electrical safety, such as red, yellow, blue phase colours do not get coded.

Fair enough. It’s kind of what I was trying to say. I just didn’t articulate it very well.

At-all.