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

Sparkingchip
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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    For my money it all depends if it's used for equipment outdoors - if it was then long leads (so potentially high Zs) and significantly increased likelihood of damaged/severed flexes means that ADS might not provide protection - so that would suggest a C2 to me.


    If however it wasn't likely to be used for equipment outdoors - either because it wasn't convenient (because there was a more accessible socket next to the door perhaps) or because the householder was aware of the issue and knew that the other sockets were safer to use - then I'd be happy with a C3. Maybe a note in the EICR to the effect that the cooker socket shouldn't be used for equipment outdoors wouldn't do any harm.


       - Andy.
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    For my money it all depends if it's used for equipment outdoors - if it was then long leads (so potentially high Zs) and significantly increased likelihood of damaged/severed flexes means that ADS might not provide protection - so that would suggest a C2 to me.


    If however it wasn't likely to be used for equipment outdoors - either because it wasn't convenient (because there was a more accessible socket next to the door perhaps) or because the householder was aware of the issue and knew that the other sockets were safer to use - then I'd be happy with a C3. Maybe a note in the EICR to the effect that the cooker socket shouldn't be used for equipment outdoors wouldn't do any harm.


       - Andy.
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