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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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    Is that down to the authors of BS7288:2016 being clumsy with the use of words from BS7671?


    I agree with John Peckham that these RCD devices being omitted from the Wiring Regulations is probably not an error on the part of the authors of BS7671, but is due to how BS7288:2016 was drafted by its authors and the specifications that was drawn up for them by those authors and the manufacturers, which in some instances are one and the same.


    Andy Betteridge
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    Is that down to the authors of BS7288:2016 being clumsy with the use of words from BS7671?


    I agree with John Peckham that these RCD devices being omitted from the Wiring Regulations is probably not an error on the part of the authors of BS7671, but is due to how BS7288:2016 was drafted by its authors and the specifications that was drawn up for them by those authors and the manufacturers, which in some instances are one and the same.


    Andy Betteridge
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