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Would you say that the above regulation covers a large old farm barn, now used as a workshop/man cave/motorbike storage area/snooker room? The old barn is over 100 years old. It has thick solid walls and is attached to a modernish bungalow, but with no direct access to the bungalow. Basically can I install a plastic cased consumer unit?

 

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    I went to look at a fault yesterday in a rented property. All of the upstairs lights had failed but live to Earth was fine. A loose neutral screw in the looped ceiling rose in the first supplied room was the problem, but why it was lose was a complete mystery as it had worked fine for about 30 years! Just poking my meter probe into the terminal made everything work again, which fortunately I noticed as the measured mains was then present. The copper of the wires was somewhat black and dirty, but no obvious damage or reason why the conductivity suddenly became zero. Load, a few LED lamps, and the bathroom fan, so very small. This kind of thing is surprisingly common, so I wonder if EICR's should check the tightness of every screw? I am beginning to think that they should, but for a big installation, it would take a lot of extra time.

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    I went to look at a fault yesterday in a rented property. All of the upstairs lights had failed but live to Earth was fine. A loose neutral screw in the looped ceiling rose in the first supplied room was the problem, but why it was lose was a complete mystery as it had worked fine for about 30 years! Just poking my meter probe into the terminal made everything work again, which fortunately I noticed as the measured mains was then present. The copper of the wires was somewhat black and dirty, but no obvious damage or reason why the conductivity suddenly became zero. Load, a few LED lamps, and the bathroom fan, so very small. This kind of thing is surprisingly common, so I wonder if EICR's should check the tightness of every screw? I am beginning to think that they should, but for a big installation, it would take a lot of extra time.

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