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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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    A little trig and calculation may help you, Andy, as this chap doesn't have a copy of BS7671! It is quite difficult to explain zones without diagrams and some understanding of exactly what it means. Is the 2.25 figure to the lowest extremity of the fitting for example, or the ceiling? I could say out of touch range, but some people could stand on the edge of the bath (do not think too hard about that!). This is more about understanding if there is a problem than exact regs. In fact, I don't understand the 2.25m figure because many people can reach higher than that when standing in the bath. Zones appeared in the 17th edition, my red 16th edition has no mention of them.

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    A little trig and calculation may help you, Andy, as this chap doesn't have a copy of BS7671! It is quite difficult to explain zones without diagrams and some understanding of exactly what it means. Is the 2.25 figure to the lowest extremity of the fitting for example, or the ceiling? I could say out of touch range, but some people could stand on the edge of the bath (do not think too hard about that!). This is more about understanding if there is a problem than exact regs. In fact, I don't understand the 2.25m figure because many people can reach higher than that when standing in the bath. Zones appeared in the 17th edition, my red 16th edition has no mention of them.

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