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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.

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    I had already asked the electrician about fitting an RCBO but he advised that he'd never seen one fitted into my type of Wylex CU and he didn't think one was available that would fit.  I contacted Wylex with the details of my CU and they said they did have a retrofit RCBO even though it wasn't designed for my CU.  I bought one from Screwfix for £33 and the electrician said he would fit it.  Unfortunately, the electrician has tried to fit it but has advised that it fouls on the neutral busbar so unfortunately an RCBO isn't an option.  Great idea with regards to moving the the bathroom light to the RCD side.  I've just checked my photos of the CU but unfortunately the design doesn't allow any reconfiguring and there's no circuit I can remove/do away with on the RCD side.  Thanks very much for the suggestions though.

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    I had already asked the electrician about fitting an RCBO but he advised that he'd never seen one fitted into my type of Wylex CU and he didn't think one was available that would fit.  I contacted Wylex with the details of my CU and they said they did have a retrofit RCBO even though it wasn't designed for my CU.  I bought one from Screwfix for £33 and the electrician said he would fit it.  Unfortunately, the electrician has tried to fit it but has advised that it fouls on the neutral busbar so unfortunately an RCBO isn't an option.  Great idea with regards to moving the the bathroom light to the RCD side.  I've just checked my photos of the CU but unfortunately the design doesn't allow any reconfiguring and there's no circuit I can remove/do away with on the RCD side.  Thanks very much for the suggestions though.

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