Electrical Regs in Ireland (Dublin)

Having failed to edit the above post - this is in an office environment for desks. 


Interestingly, they use our sockets (Three pin square ones) do they also use the same light switches?


Kind Regards

Tatty

Theres an Irish guy on Diynot & Screwfix forums always quoting the differences between UK & ROI, he's a bit abrasive but might help

He`s not called "Ban All Regs" is he?

Lol I think our friend has finally retired to his hermit cave, this guy is called Risteard

I don’t know if I am in Ireland or the UK. I guess Boris will sort that out after 12th December. Mind you if I was a mainlander I think that I would vote to wrap NI up in a bit of Christmas paper and give it to some unsuspecting passerby! 

Regulations in ROI are based on the same plethora of HDs as 7671. Being passionately European, I can’t see them turning down an installation erected in compliance with agreed norms from CENELEC. You should be aware that you will need to use twin and earth with same csa.

Having just done Berlin, it seems that each circuit did one socket, and I rightly, or wrongly, added one socket in a radial fashion using BS8436.

Humm - I wonder what the Germans think of non-harmonized non-German cable being used? (Possibly a bit like people using SY here...?)


BS 8436 is probably OK in Ireland though - if I understand correctly it'll meet their standard IS 273.


Others here will know better than me the details of the Irish regs - but from what I gather they're historically based on UK regs (hence allowing BS 1363 style sockets) but have drifted a little more towards continental practice in recent years. The last I heard rings were still permitted, but radials were perhaps more fashionable. Reduced c.s.a. and bare c.p.c.s are now out (they have their own version of T&E now with an insulated full size c.p.c.). I think they might allow shucko sockets too (but UK style ones are still popular) and are (or were) ahead of us in demanding 30mA RCDs for supplementary protection where we'd still permit it to be omitted. They do seem to have an odd requirement for CUs to have a fuse on the incomer (usually 63A).


   - Andy.

ET101 suggests a maximum of 10 points across no more than two rooms (excluding hallways) for a radial socket circuit (with an unlimited number for a ring final circuit).


You should be familiar with acceptable cable types etc. and the requirement for certification should any Controlled Works be carried out.

AJJewsbury:

Others here will know better than me the details of the Irish regs - but from what I gather they're historically based on UK regs

I would suggest that it would be more accurate to consider the Wiring Rules to have been traditionally a bit of a hybrid between German and UK regs. The ESB (the DSO) had a lot of dealings with Siemens in the early days if I'm not mistaken.

A few days ago, an interviewee from NI suggested that the province might be ready for a united Ireland in about 15 years. So if it happens, it seems that all of a sudden a whole load of installations may become non-compliant.


Can anybody comment on the situation when Germany re-unified?