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RCD socket outlet.

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Hi all,
Any comments on this one most welcome!
A customer wants me to replace an existing one gang 13 amp socket outlet with a double.
The problem is that there's no rcd protection there, so i'm thinking that as I am in effect adding a socket outlet I should fit an rcd protected one?
If I were replacing like for like it wouldn't bother me at all but the fact it's going to be a double makes me think an rcd protected one is the thing to do, just seems a bit ott to fit one rcd protected socket when there are probably 20 others that aren't rcd'd!
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    John Peckham:

    Chris


    Your SRCD near doors to the outside on your 15th Edition installation were no no doubt put there to comply with regulation 471-12 of the 15th Edition to protect leads and appliances going outside the equipotential zone. Your SRCDs would have no doubt complied with BS 7288-1990 not the current BS 7288-2016. I would recommend you bring your whole installation up to the 18th Edition standard for the added benefits. Just to show I am not smug I have a house with a 16th Edition installation. I have a new dual RCD board sitting on the floor waiting for me to get my a**e in to gear and get it fitted, in my defence I do now have Type 2 surge protection on my newly fitted REC 2 isolator carried out as part of the enabling works for the CU upgrade.



    Cobblers! Although in this particular case it is that it is the cobbler who has leaky shoes whilst his children have nice shiny new ones (one rewire, one new build). ?


    Work is progressing in stages. The next one is to provide a link between two buildings so that distribution circuits may be brought across.


    Oh yes, and at some stage I should do an EICR.
    If I may ask a rude question, " Are you happy to sign EICs and Minor Works as being compliant with BS 7671 when you have fitted an SRCD"? How would you code a BS 7288-2016 having discovered one on a periodic inspection?

    C3 for me. It has to be coded as a non-compliance.
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    John Peckham:

    Chris


    Your SRCD near doors to the outside on your 15th Edition installation were no no doubt put there to comply with regulation 471-12 of the 15th Edition to protect leads and appliances going outside the equipotential zone. Your SRCDs would have no doubt complied with BS 7288-1990 not the current BS 7288-2016. I would recommend you bring your whole installation up to the 18th Edition standard for the added benefits. Just to show I am not smug I have a house with a 16th Edition installation. I have a new dual RCD board sitting on the floor waiting for me to get my a**e in to gear and get it fitted, in my defence I do now have Type 2 surge protection on my newly fitted REC 2 isolator carried out as part of the enabling works for the CU upgrade.



    Cobblers! Although in this particular case it is that it is the cobbler who has leaky shoes whilst his children have nice shiny new ones (one rewire, one new build). ?


    Work is progressing in stages. The next one is to provide a link between two buildings so that distribution circuits may be brought across.


    Oh yes, and at some stage I should do an EICR.
    If I may ask a rude question, " Are you happy to sign EICs and Minor Works as being compliant with BS 7671 when you have fitted an SRCD"? How would you code a BS 7288-2016 having discovered one on a periodic inspection?

    C3 for me. It has to be coded as a non-compliance.
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