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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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    John Peckham:

    If the socket could be used to supply mobile equipment outdoors then a C2. E.g near a door to the outside or a convenient window that could could be used to supply a jet wash, lawn mower, power tools etc.




    John, why C2, which makes the installation unsatisfactory? Given a 50 m extension cable, any socket could be used to supply mobile equipment outdoors.


    In default of changing my consumer units, I have put an SRCD by my back door so that if I slice through the cable of my hedge trimmer, I shall remain safe. Along similar lines, SRCDs (but not waterproof ones) were installed in the conservatory in the 1980s. However, when I plug in my vacuum cleaner in the non-protected hall socket so that I may clean my car, I do not feel in fear of my life.


    IMHO, there has to be an expectation that the socket will be used to supply equipment outdoors and not simply a possibility.


    Back to the witness box. You might well tell the judge (or coroner) that in your opinion the installation was unsatisfactory having coded the circuit C2, but would you not also be obliged to outline the range of opinion which might exist? PD35 para 3.2(6).


    So hands up those for C2, and hands up those for C3. ?

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    John Peckham:

    If the socket could be used to supply mobile equipment outdoors then a C2. E.g near a door to the outside or a convenient window that could could be used to supply a jet wash, lawn mower, power tools etc.




    John, why C2, which makes the installation unsatisfactory? Given a 50 m extension cable, any socket could be used to supply mobile equipment outdoors.


    In default of changing my consumer units, I have put an SRCD by my back door so that if I slice through the cable of my hedge trimmer, I shall remain safe. Along similar lines, SRCDs (but not waterproof ones) were installed in the conservatory in the 1980s. However, when I plug in my vacuum cleaner in the non-protected hall socket so that I may clean my car, I do not feel in fear of my life.


    IMHO, there has to be an expectation that the socket will be used to supply equipment outdoors and not simply a possibility.


    Back to the witness box. You might well tell the judge (or coroner) that in your opinion the installation was unsatisfactory having coded the circuit C2, but would you not also be obliged to outline the range of opinion which might exist? PD35 para 3.2(6).


    So hands up those for C2, and hands up those for C3. ?

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