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Landlord electrical inspections from July!

Dear IET & HMG,

Please could you get your acts togother and co-ordinate your efforts in order that they correspond a little more with the Real World please?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_UN84w8brk

  • You might be interested to know that 40 foot containers fitted out as temporary morgues were inspected and tested when they were delivered to a hospital site a couple of months ago. One item on the snag list was the very thing you are talking about!
  • Back in the 1980's when I was working as a carpenter I hung the fire escape doors to allow escapes from a hospital morgue, there were comments at the time!


    Mind you at another hospital I hung a lead lined door weighing over two hundredweight leading into the ensuite toilet that was being built in the X-ray suite of the hospital, because people who had had barium meals were not making it to the existing facilities and there had been a number of incidents in the corridors. We never really determined if the lead lining was to protect those in or out of the toilet.


    Andy B.
  • Going back to the video linked to in the original post, it should be noted that something that was apparently missed on the first inspection and subsequently picked up on the second inspection is that the main switch is damaged, replacement of the main switch was presumably then recommended on the EICR.


    If a compatible 30 mA DP RCD can be obtained and installed as a replacement for the damaged main switch, virtually every observation on the EICR would be dealt with.


    However, I had a similar situation a couple of years ago and contacted a merchant to get a price for a Newlec RCD to install as a replacement for a DP main switch in the consumer unit of a flat and it was not a cost effective solution with the RCD being priced at over £90 including VAT and with there only being three circuits in the flat it was actually better to fit a completely new consumer unit with three RCBOs in it that has a metal enclosure.


    Andy Betteridge