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EICR Certificate - Should Bathroom light not having RCD protection be C2 or C3?

AdamG

Hello,

Is anyone able to please clarify?  An electrician has just undertaken an inspection to allow an EICR to be issued.  They have stated there is a requirement to have RCD protection for the bathroom light (given it a code C2) and so they are quoting £600 to fit a new consumer unit.  I appreciate that if the house was being built today that it would need to comply with the 18th edition regs which came into force in Jan 2019 and hence would indeed need an RCD on the bathroom light but my house was built in 1956 although has a 16th edition CU with RCDs on socket circuits only but I thought this should be coded as a C3.  Any advice greatly appreciated.

Thanks

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    Are there other things wrong that would also push for a new CU - we cannot see it, but is it rammed full and in poor state and overloaded and generally crying out to be re-done ?

    If not, then as others have said to change it is a sledgehammer to crack a nut. If RCD cover really is needed, there are ways to add it to the lights without a full CU change, and in many situations, (the  all enclosed plastic light being the classic) the RCD is not doing a lot anyway.

    Often a 16th edition board can be re-configured to that more or less of the internals is supplied by  the RCD without doing more than changing the bus-bar links inside. That may or may not be possible. A photo would help.

    Stupidly, if the bathroom light was fed from a length of flex plugged into the socket  circuit, regs wise it would be OK, though this is the sort of thing usually left by cowboys.

     

    Mike.

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    Are there other things wrong that would also push for a new CU - we cannot see it, but is it rammed full and in poor state and overloaded and generally crying out to be re-done ?

    If not, then as others have said to change it is a sledgehammer to crack a nut. If RCD cover really is needed, there are ways to add it to the lights without a full CU change, and in many situations, (the  all enclosed plastic light being the classic) the RCD is not doing a lot anyway.

    Often a 16th edition board can be re-configured to that more or less of the internals is supplied by  the RCD without doing more than changing the bus-bar links inside. That may or may not be possible. A photo would help.

    Stupidly, if the bathroom light was fed from a length of flex plugged into the socket  circuit, regs wise it would be OK, though this is the sort of thing usually left by cowboys.

     

    Mike.

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