Quarterly-6 monthly crap!

[Deleted member 9648]

So we are 6 months in to the 18th and still every RCD test label supplied with boards/RCBO's comes with a quarterly label. 14 starbreaker RCBO's fitted today..all with quarterly labels. Shouldn't manufacturers be binning their old stickers and supplying the correct ones? I'm having to make up a '6 monthly' label on the brother printer and cut it down so it fits over the offending bit. Is anyone else bothering or just using the old?
BTW the change to 6 monthly must be one of the most pointless reg changes in a sea of pointless reg changes. (IMO)

 

[magnoliafan89]

It's frightening the amount of tenants who can't tell me where the DB is.

Regarding the rcd testing i had an interesting one the other week.
Went to do an eicr turning the power off flicked the mcbs off then pushed the test button on the rcd ....no luck....turned it off and on manually a few times then joy.

Test finished and one socket changed i turned the power back on only for the RCD to trip on the side that id hust changed said socket. Long story short after getting ----ed with myself it wasn't the socket but an extension lead the tenant had plugged in...earth into the neutral and vice versa. Obviously it had never tripped before as it was stuck and needless to say i didnt bother asking if he'd checked it ever...let alone quarterly or 6 monthly

 

[davesparks]

I think a reg that needs removing is the need for the dual colour warning label

A waste of time, materials and a pointless box to tick,
...

Even the man from the nic wasn't too fussed about them when I had him round a couple of weeks ago. I showed him 3 TP DB replacements without that sticker on them and he didnt bat an eyelid, he agreed its a fairly pointless exercise when I raised yhe subject.

 

[Deleted member 26818]

So we are 6 months in to the 18th and still every RCD test label supplied with boards/RCBO's comes with a quarterly label. 14 starbreaker RCBO's fitted today..all with quarterly labels. Shouldn't manufacturers be binning their old stickers and supplying the correct ones? I'm having to make up a '6 monthly' label on the brother printer and cut it down so it fits over the offending bit. Is anyone else bothering or just using the old?
BTW the change to 6 monthly must be one of the most pointless reg changes in a sea of pointless reg changes. (IMO)

No.
The Manufacturer’s Instructions in this instance over ride what BS7671 says.

 

[Deleted member 9648]

I hadn't looked at it that way, but indeed, that's a good gettout.

No.
The Manufacturer’s Instructions in this instance over ride what BS7671 says.