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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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    Guidance note 3 table 3.5 gives brief examples of codes including:


    C3 Improvement required. To be attributed where C! and C2 do not apply. Examples include the absences of most warning notices, absence of the required diagrams and charts, no or incorrect marking of conductors at terminations, absence of an RCD specified for additional protection (where the circuit otherwise tests as normal).


    So that states that not having a RCD for additional protection is no more important than having all the sticky labels on a consumer unit or a bit of brown sleeving on a switch wire. Not much of an issue then?


    Andy Betteridge
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    Guidance note 3 table 3.5 gives brief examples of codes including:


    C3 Improvement required. To be attributed where C! and C2 do not apply. Examples include the absences of most warning notices, absence of the required diagrams and charts, no or incorrect marking of conductors at terminations, absence of an RCD specified for additional protection (where the circuit otherwise tests as normal).


    So that states that not having a RCD for additional protection is no more important than having all the sticky labels on a consumer unit or a bit of brown sleeving on a switch wire. Not much of an issue then?


    Andy Betteridge
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