is rcd protection reqiured?

[ample current]

I have installed a pull cord hunidistat fan in a bathroom. The property has no rcd protection, do I now need to install an rcbo?
In the same house I have installed a similar fan in the kitchen powered from an existing unused sfcu do I also need to add an rcd to this circuit?

Thanks in advance

 

[Geoffsd]

It doesn't matter what you have installed.

Any new fixed cabling installed in a method that requires RCD protection should have RCD protection.

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It doesn't matter what you have installed.

Any new fixed cabling installed in a method that requires RCD protection should have RCD protection.

 

[D Skelton]

Does the 'bathroom contain a bath or shower'? I assume so, so yes.

How you choose to provide the required protection, as long as it complies with the regs it's up to you.

 

[Benjamiin]

In a word, yes, anything you add needs rcd protection! Might be worth checking if bonding conductors are correct size or present at all, I am of course assuming ( against the advice of my great great great great grandfather) that property has a db which was installed when 6mm was ok to use for bonds!

 

[D Skelton]

anything you add needs rcd protection!

Not everything needs RCD protection.

 

[D Skelton]

I am of course assuming ( against the advice of my great great great great grandfather) that property has a db which was installed when 6mm was ok to use for bonds!

If the property isn't PME 6mm may well be sufficient for main bonding conductors.

 

[GLENNSPARK]

Does the 'bathroom contain a bath or shower'? I assume so, so yes.

How you choose to provide the required protection, as long as it complies with the regs it's up to you.

give up damian...lol...

 

[Octopus]

I have installed a pull cord hunidistat fan in a bathroom. The property has no rcd protection, do I now need to install an rcbo?
In the same house I have installed a similar fan in the kitchen powered from an existing unused sfcu do I also need to add an rcd to this circuit?

Thanks in advance

This is notifiable work and as such you need to be a member of a scheme, and you should know the answer to this

 

[kingeri]

In a word, yes, anything you add needs rcd protection! Might be worth checking if bonding conductors are correct size or present at all, I am of course assuming ( against the advice of my great great great great grandfather) that property has a db which was installed when 6mm was ok to use for bonds!

Since when?

 

[snowhead]

This is notifiable work and as such you need to be a member of a scheme, and you should know the answer to this

I'm driving along in my van and there are some Red Amber and Green light in front, the question is do I stop?

Worrying that the O.P HAS installed a fan and is now asking if RCD is required.

 

[Benjamiin]

Since I decided that anytime I add anything to any install needs rcd protection! In my eyes looking through the regs to see if you have to rcd protect is cutting a corner, why not price it into the job, I get an rcd spur from my wholesaler for 8 quid and it's easy to pop it alongside db and take a feed and the lighting load into!I always price for rcd protection, then if the customer wants it done cheaper let someone else do it, you can't buy a clear conscience!!and if anything went wrong in the future and Mr N.I.C or whoever got wind, I couldnt stand there and say "it didnt need rcd protection"! I'd be ashamed to say that for the sake of a few quid!!

 

[kingeri]

Since I decided that anytime I add anything to any install needs rcd protection! In my eyes looking through the regs to see if you have to rcd protect is cutting a corner, why not price it into the job, I get an rcd spur from my wholesaler for 8 quid and it's easy to pop it alongside db and take a feed and the lighting load into!I always price for rcd protection, then if the customer wants it done cheaper let someone else do it, you can't buy a clear conscience!!and if anything went wrong in the future and Mr N.I.C or whoever got wind, I couldnt stand there and say "it didnt need rcd protection"! I'd be ashamed to say that for the sake of a few quid!!

But that's not what you said. The fact is that RCD protection is not always required. However, I do totally agree with everything you said above, I see no reason to look for reasons NOT to provide RCD protection!

 

[Benjamiin]

@ kingeri fair point, I'll explain better in future, just re read the whole thread, apologies for the mix up and thanks for pointing it out!

 

[richy3333]

This is notifiable work and as such you need to be a member of a scheme, and you should know the answer to this

Murdoch, he's an Elecsa 'Part P approved contractor' according to his info, whatever that is?

 

[bigbaddave]

Since when?

BS7671 (2008) Ammendmet 2.. :ihih: