I am an electrician nearing retirement, so really I should know this but am not sure. I have not done any installation or real heavy electrical work for some years now. I have a small business, dealing with the maintenance of student accommodation buildings. Electrical, plumbing, carpentry, gardening etc. I have not done an eicr for a while but have in the past and am qualified. I was asked whether I would undertake the eicr on one of my regular sites and the money I was offered was too good to turn down.
I was let down by two electricians. Therefore have been doing the job myself. I am most of the way through it, took nearly a year, due to the size, over 300 boards and the Covid restrictions. My question is this. There are 1Kw heaters in each of the rooms and they are all protected by a 20A type B mcb. By my reckoning it should be 6A. Also there are Wi fi routers in the flat clusters, also protected by a 20A mcb, they only draw a very small current. The loop, and pfc check out o.k.
Do I record this as a C3 ? There are over a thousand like this in the building. Also in a lot of the boards, there are no covers on the unused live terminals. Do I record this as a c3. The installation itself is only 6 years old and I have not found many problems, apart from 2 faulty RCD's and some loose terminals. which we have rectified as we went along.
I was let down by two electricians. Therefore have been doing the job myself. I am most of the way through it, took nearly a year, due to the size, over 300 boards and the Covid restrictions. My question is this. There are 1Kw heaters in each of the rooms and they are all protected by a 20A type B mcb. By my reckoning it should be 6A. Also there are Wi fi routers in the flat clusters, also protected by a 20A mcb, they only draw a very small current. The loop, and pfc check out o.k.
Do I record this as a C3 ? There are over a thousand like this in the building. Also in a lot of the boards, there are no covers on the unused live terminals. Do I record this as a c3. The installation itself is only 6 years old and I have not found many problems, apart from 2 faulty RCD's and some loose terminals. which we have rectified as we went along.