EICR code- Cooker switch with a socket outlet lacking RCD protection.

Sparkingchip over 4 years ago

1980's end of terrace house, MEM Memera consumer unit with a RCBO to provide 30 mA RCD protection to the socket ring circuit, but no other circuits have RCD protection and there is not any outdoor sockets at all.

There is a cooker switch incorporating a 13-amp socket outlet, which is the closest socket to the kitchen window and with 1.5 metres of it, this socket does not have 30 mA RCD protection, what EICR code should be applied and why?

Andy Betteridge

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0 Chris Pearson over 4 years ago

No immediate danger, so not C1.

Presumably requirements for ADS met, so not C2.

Not compliant with current edition, so must be a C3.

If it was installed to 15th Edn, RCD protection may have been required for a socket likely to be used for equipment outdoors, but a socket on a cooker switch plate would not be my first choice. Otherwise, no RCD protection was required.

Is the RCBO for the sockets a later alteration? (Not that it matters.)
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0 Chris Pearson over 4 years ago

No immediate danger, so not C1.

Presumably requirements for ADS met, so not C2.

Not compliant with current edition, so must be a C3.

If it was installed to 15th Edn, RCD protection may have been required for a socket likely to be used for equipment outdoors, but a socket on a cooker switch plate would not be my first choice. Otherwise, no RCD protection was required.

Is the RCBO for the sockets a later alteration? (Not that it matters.)
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