PATting a dishwasher

[DPG]

PAT Portable Appliance Test .... how many portable dishwashers can you name ?

Post automatically merged: Oct 9, 2019

Sorry I even spoke, obviously a lot of ---- sparks out there

It's not being ----, it's being accurate. Some people really do believe that only portable equipment with a plug top on needs testing/inspecting. This is just not true.

 

[pirate]

Portable Appliance testing is just a colloquialism as TonyMitchell stated. There are several types of appliance as also stated, and the testing regime is different for all of them, especially with regard to how often some appliances should be tested. Moveable and hand-held should be tested more frequently than fixed or stationary, and IT is a moveable feast.
The location of the equipment is another factor.
It's boring work, with lots of wasted time, but as a sideline it's ok.
If you find, for example, an oil-filled radiator plugged into a socket, do you test it? How often? Is it fixed or stationary?
If in the next room there is an identical radiator wired into a FCU, do you test it?
IMHO, you test them both. You suggest the testing interval, but don't "set" it, as that is up to the "controller" to do.
If you don't know how to test the latter radiator, then don't do ISITEE because you will find stuff you can't test, because you are not performing the desired service, and "stickering" is just criminal.