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

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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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    davezawadi:

    Surely Andy you do not think that the Inspectors job is to stop people being stupid about everything that they do? You mention damaging the cable with the kitchen window. Why would you close the window firmly enough to damage the sheath and primary insulation, which is quite difficult to do with proper wire strippers? I have had thousands of cables through all kinds of windows, and very rarely indeed has one been damaged in the way you describe. 

     




     

    To my knowledge there is at least one recorded death due to an extension lead being shut in a window.


    There was a young mother with a baby whose electricity had been cut off, a kind neighbour passed an extension lead out through one of his windows and back in through one of hers so she could plug in an electric heater and a kettle to keep her and the baby warm as well as being able to feed the baby. She closed the metal window tightly onto the extension lead to keep themselves warm and the following day was found dead having been killed by touching the window that was live with electricity due to the cable insulation failing overnight. 


    Andy Betteridge
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    davezawadi:

    Surely Andy you do not think that the Inspectors job is to stop people being stupid about everything that they do? You mention damaging the cable with the kitchen window. Why would you close the window firmly enough to damage the sheath and primary insulation, which is quite difficult to do with proper wire strippers? I have had thousands of cables through all kinds of windows, and very rarely indeed has one been damaged in the way you describe. 

     




     

    To my knowledge there is at least one recorded death due to an extension lead being shut in a window.


    There was a young mother with a baby whose electricity had been cut off, a kind neighbour passed an extension lead out through one of his windows and back in through one of hers so she could plug in an electric heater and a kettle to keep her and the baby warm as well as being able to feed the baby. She closed the metal window tightly onto the extension lead to keep themselves warm and the following day was found dead having been killed by touching the window that was live with electricity due to the cable insulation failing overnight. 


    Andy Betteridge
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