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Making two properites into one

Rob Bain
Afternoon all,

An MOD client wishes to form one large property from two semi-detached properties, keeping both consumer units. I have looked through the latest BS 7671 for any glaring regs that are going to stop this from happening, and can only see the separation distance regulation that must be applied. Obviously am trying to persuade them that it would be better to have only one source of  supply into the property and hence only one consumer unit. Has anybody else come across this in their line of work and if so how did they get over it to maintain compliance with BS7671?


thanks in advance.

Rob
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    Sparkingchip:




    Chris Pearson:

    This is a similar situation to my daughter's house, which used to be two semi-detached cottages with two separate electrical systems. There has been only one CU for many years, but the circuits were arranged vertically rather than horizontally with the potentially dangerous result that "downstairs sockets" meant only some of them; ditto upstairs.




    That can be viewed as good practice, with sockets still available on both floors it one circuit trips out.



    It's the labelling that I considered to be dangerous.


    I think that it would be perfectly reasonable for a skilled but ordinary person to change a socket outlet. I would not, however, expect an ordinary person to know about safe isolation, let alone have the gear. So you think that you have turned off the circuit when you haven't.


    Yes, yes, I know that you can plug in a vacuum cleaner and listen at the CU for it to go off; and yes, your life might be saved by an RCD, but only if you have one.

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    Sparkingchip:




    Chris Pearson:

    This is a similar situation to my daughter's house, which used to be two semi-detached cottages with two separate electrical systems. There has been only one CU for many years, but the circuits were arranged vertically rather than horizontally with the potentially dangerous result that "downstairs sockets" meant only some of them; ditto upstairs.




    That can be viewed as good practice, with sockets still available on both floors it one circuit trips out.



    It's the labelling that I considered to be dangerous.


    I think that it would be perfectly reasonable for a skilled but ordinary person to change a socket outlet. I would not, however, expect an ordinary person to know about safe isolation, let alone have the gear. So you think that you have turned off the circuit when you haven't.


    Yes, yes, I know that you can plug in a vacuum cleaner and listen at the CU for it to go off; and yes, your life might be saved by an RCD, but only if you have one.

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