Moving the CU

[SYKRAPS]

usual drama queen crap on what if someone dies ?

So is this not something to be considered?

 

[MDJ]

no-one is saying dont test or dont check over installation prior to any work , it was a question of which cert.
instead we get the usual drama queen crap on what if someone dies ?
i'm sure loads get killed every year from excessive R1+R2 readings.

I personally would issue a completion certificate due to the fact I had interfered with all circuits and would want to ensure they were safe and sound after re-connecting, plus it is my name of the certificate saying it is safe for a family to live in the house after the works.

 

[imago]

I wouldn't be testing in case someone dies, just to make sure everything was as it should be. The other reason for testing the full range would be to cover myself if other subsequent work generated a fault. I would have a dated record of the readings at the end of the work I'd completed.

and all your customers are happy to pay for this extra service ?

What extra service? I'd only test the circuits I'd worked on, which is all of them, and issue the appropriate paperwork, which would be an EIC.

 

[Guest55]

So is this not something to be considered?

whats it got to do with which cert to issue ?
as per the topic.

 

[SYKRAPS]

whats it got to do with which cert to issue ?
as per the topic.

You are quite right I have gone off topic rather, I would still be completing an EICR for this one fr the reasons I listed earlier.

 

[RogertheBodger]

I would just knock the wall down and hang the cu on the back of the new door, no drama, 2 screws, easy.

 

[not clever]

Move the cu extend circuits issue MW for each circuit.....................simples.............why the protracted debate?

 

[MDJ]

Move the cu extend circuits issue MW for each circuit.....................simples.............why the protracted debate?

Because were british and never agree about anything, our Island is 900 miles long and yet we cannot even speak with the same accents lol, never has there been a country like ours in history, we love debate and love trying to beat each other, thats just brits for you. :santa3:

 

[imago]

A cert per circuit? So eight or ten certs? Hell's teeth you like your paperwork!

 

[SPARTYKUS]

Morning

don't think the OP (Hi Amp) was going to extend any circuits, is that right? Just move the CU. I assume from your post the situation did not require extension of any cable?

 

[imago]

A customer wants a consumer unit moved about a meter to one side, because she's converting the garage and wants to put a door where the consumer unit is now.

Moving it a metre must involve extending the cables surely? Especially if a door is going where it was originally.

 

[ferg]

Installation cert for me.
Removing old CU modifying every circuit then re-installing CU.
Last person to work on it.. you
Extent of installation affected by your work.. all of it.

 

[PEG]

I would just knock the wall down and hang the cu on the back of the new door, no drama, 2 screws, easy.

Good call,but surely hanging the CU on the door will require all circuits to have new flexible cables which,will require testing.Its a mine field....

 

[FAA Greenie]

What is a completion certificate?

Ok, so you are moving a CU, you need to extend the circuits, appropriate box, wago's etc, extend out no worries.

You are not doing an EICR. You are doing a CU change. You do the standard CU change tests, Ze Zs's Insulation tests, all that you need to do to fill out an EIC. In the EIC is a section that details the extent of the work carried out. You put 'Replacement of consumer unit and associated testing only' so long as you can fill out the cert honestly, you are covered.

Should you uncover any problems during the testing you need to to do to complete ther EIC then yes, you need to investigate, eg you cant just shove an R1 of 0.70 in there followed by a 2.5 R2, you will need to investigate that, but that is as far as it goes, if it all adds up and your insulation tests are fine, you are covered.....

 

[not clever]

but its not a cu change, it is relocating the same cu. Unless i read the post wrong which isnt unknown.
So how many when they extend a ringfinal issue an EIC? not me.

So if its the same cu just relocated (no change in ocpd's or rcd's) & the circuits require extending why would you complete an EIC?