If you listen to the DJ Sparky on the radio or on Youtube, or some of the other YouTuber’s they are offer the advice that there’s no really an issue if a flat above ground floor doesn’t have RCD protection to any of the circuits at all, as everything can be coded as a C3.
But they fail to mention that supplementary bonding may need to be in place in lieu of RCD protection for bathroom circuits or else you need to raise a C2, so actually rejigging the consumer unit moving one or more lighting circuits to the RCD protected side of a split load consumer unit can be the difference between satisfactory and unsatisfactory.
So if it is the difference between a “pass or a fail” and there’s no other reason why it would be unsatisfactory, it’s a bit of a no brainier, so long as there’s spare RCD protected ways.
If you listen to the DJ Sparky on the radio or on Youtube, or some of the other YouTuber’s they are offer the advice that there’s no really an issue if a flat above ground floor doesn’t have RCD protection to any of the circuits at all, as everything can be coded as a C3.
But they fail to mention that supplementary bonding may need to be in place in lieu of RCD protection for bathroom circuits or else you need to raise a C2, so actually rejigging the consumer unit moving one or more lighting circuits to the RCD protected side of a split load consumer unit can be the difference between satisfactory and unsatisfactory.
So if it is the difference between a “pass or a fail” and there’s no other reason why it would be unsatisfactory, it’s a bit of a no brainier, so long as there’s spare RCD protected ways.
