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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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    Okay.


    This is a real life scenario and it is a privately rented house, so the tenancy could change at any time, so the it is okay if the people living there know not to use it for outdoor equipment argument cannot be used and neither can it be labelled not for outdoor use in a domestic property.


    But why would not complying with a requirement for having RCD protection for an indoor socket supplying outdoor equipment warrant a C2 anymore than any of the other requirements for the concealed circuit cable and socket outlet to have RCD protection? Why pick and choose when the requirements for RCD protection should be applied?


    Andy Betteridge.
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    Okay.


    This is a real life scenario and it is a privately rented house, so the tenancy could change at any time, so the it is okay if the people living there know not to use it for outdoor equipment argument cannot be used and neither can it be labelled not for outdoor use in a domestic property.


    But why would not complying with a requirement for having RCD protection for an indoor socket supplying outdoor equipment warrant a C2 anymore than any of the other requirements for the concealed circuit cable and socket outlet to have RCD protection? Why pick and choose when the requirements for RCD protection should be applied?


    Andy Betteridge.
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