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 Sparkingchip over 4 years ago

The introduction to BS 7671:2008.

I have underlined a pertinent point, we have supposedly been protecting users of electrical sockets in domestic properties from their own carelessness for twelve years.

Yet people are still indecisive about coding a socket outlet for an EICR. How many years does it take for a Wiring Regulation to become generally accepted?

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0 Sparkingchip over 4 years ago

The introduction to BS 7671:2008.

I have underlined a pertinent point, we have supposedly been protecting users of electrical sockets in domestic properties from their own carelessness for twelve years.

Yet people are still indecisive about coding a socket outlet for an EICR. How many years does it take for a Wiring Regulation to become generally accepted?

Andy Betteridge
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