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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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    gkenyon:




    Zoomup:

    P. 475. CONDITION REPORT. Notes for the person producing the Report:


    An installation which was designed to an earlier edition of the Regulations and which does not fully comply with the current edition is not necessarily unsafe for continued use, or requires upgrading.


    Z.




     




    This statement can't be used to argue that an installation to 1st Edition of the Regs is considered safe today.


    The issue is not one of compliance with the current Regulations, but the interpretation of whether this particular situation is now considered "unsafe" or "improvement recommended".

     


     




    CONDITION REPORT. 


    Notes for the person producing the Report. Page 475.


    Only damage, deterioration, defects, dangerous conditions and non-compliance with the requirements of the Regulations, which may give rise to danger, should be recorded.


    I still say a C2 is warranted.


    Z.

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    gkenyon:




    Zoomup:

    P. 475. CONDITION REPORT. Notes for the person producing the Report:


    An installation which was designed to an earlier edition of the Regulations and which does not fully comply with the current edition is not necessarily unsafe for continued use, or requires upgrading.


    Z.




     




    This statement can't be used to argue that an installation to 1st Edition of the Regs is considered safe today.


    The issue is not one of compliance with the current Regulations, but the interpretation of whether this particular situation is now considered "unsafe" or "improvement recommended".

     


     




    CONDITION REPORT. 


    Notes for the person producing the Report. Page 475.


    Only damage, deterioration, defects, dangerous conditions and non-compliance with the requirements of the Regulations, which may give rise to danger, should be recorded.


    I still say a C2 is warranted.


    Z.

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