Electrician fined for EICR.

To give it a bit of context a forty year  old installation was installed around 1981, so it should have complied with the 14th or 15th edition of the Wiring Regulations and a VOELCB was still acceptable to protect a TT earthed installation rather than a RCD.

So it’s not surprising that the court commented that no concerns were raised, there should be a long list of concerns even if the installation did comply at the time of installation and has not been altered since then.

Therefore I consider that the premise that if it complied with the regulations forty years ago it will be okay now so there’s little to be concerned about has well and truly knocked on the head, because there’s now a legal precedent  that concerns are expected to be raised about an installation of that age and for many installations the recommendation to replace the fuse board with a consumer unit having 30 mA RCD protection for all final circuits is almost inevitable.

To give it a bit of context a forty year  old installation was installed around 1981, so it should have complied with the 14th or 15th edition of the Wiring Regulations and a VOELCB was still acceptable to protect a TT earthed installation rather than a RCD.

So it’s not surprising that the court commented that no concerns were raised, there should be a long list of concerns even if the installation did comply at the time of installation and has not been altered since then.

Therefore I consider that the premise that if it complied with the regulations forty years ago it will be okay now so there’s little to be concerned about has well and truly knocked on the head, because there’s now a legal precedent  that concerns are expected to be raised about an installation of that age and for many installations the recommendation to replace the fuse board with a consumer unit having 30 mA RCD protection for all final circuits is almost inevitable.