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EICR failed missing trunking?

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Hi,



I’ve just had an EICR done last week, One item I do not understand and would need an electrician or someone to help please. the EICR report says “MISSING TRUNKING WITH WIRES NOT SUPPORTED C2 SHED.” The cable is clipped on the wood wall in the shed. There are no exposed wires. And the shed is not on escape routes. Does cable need to be in trunking in order to comply with the electrical wire regulation? Is the code 2 correct for this situation?  please see photo.1ff9527a633c65202618bef88f7b0919-original-shed.jpg



Thank you for help


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    If further along there is exposed inner cores of the cable, by which I mean the red and black or brown and blue , - or if there was a risk of rats chwing the cable, perhaps that would need enclosure.

    What you show here is fine but  lacking a few cable clips, ( which  look like this for the plastic ones or this for the fire rated ones  ) and maybe a batten of wood to nail them to if the wall is floppy, but it is not really  dangerous - I;d have expected a comment that  it 'needs improvement' not a C2 failure.


    You could have trunking on the wall and it would certainly look nice, but there is no regs requirement to do so for a sheathed cable like that..


    Are there other failures in the report ? - it would be interesting to check, as if they can get that wrong, then maybe there are more serious errors.


    Mike

    PS the links are to show you what things look like, I have  no affiliation to screwfix, except as a customer.
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    If further along there is exposed inner cores of the cable, by which I mean the red and black or brown and blue , - or if there was a risk of rats chwing the cable, perhaps that would need enclosure.

    What you show here is fine but  lacking a few cable clips, ( which  look like this for the plastic ones or this for the fire rated ones  ) and maybe a batten of wood to nail them to if the wall is floppy, but it is not really  dangerous - I;d have expected a comment that  it 'needs improvement' not a C2 failure.


    You could have trunking on the wall and it would certainly look nice, but there is no regs requirement to do so for a sheathed cable like that..


    Are there other failures in the report ? - it would be interesting to check, as if they can get that wrong, then maybe there are more serious errors.


    Mike

    PS the links are to show you what things look like, I have  no affiliation to screwfix, except as a customer.
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