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RCD Protection For Old Installations

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Hey there, 

Would like to hear your thoughts on the case. 

If the installation from the 70s or 80s with old mem board has no rcd protection for neither sockets nor lights (with metal front plate switches, which are connected to CPC), taking into consideration that the installation was working cheerfully since the old days till today and all Zs values are within the range of the installed breakers and overall good condition. Would this require an upgrade to rcd protection as of the 18th edition or would class as C3 as of best practice guide 4 suggest on eicr? 

How would you approach the situation?

Regards, 

Karolis

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    What you are actually required to do is to list all the concerns as observations on the EICR, actually being expected to code them without firm guidance from “The powers that be” such as the Government as the law makers, the local councils as enforcers and the IET as authors of the Wiring Regulations which is completely unfair.

    For the landlords EICRs in particular the government should have set out the expected minimum standards, which I think they thought they had done when they said the installations have to comply with the 18th Edition of the Wiring Regulations, possibly not realising that this then left people saying “well it doesn't comply with the current regulations, but it will be okay because it was okay sixty years ago at the time it was installed, so we don't need to replace the lighting circuits that don't have a circuit protective conductor or old fuse board and add RCD protection as all those issues can be given a C3 code and any electrician who doesn't agree is just trying to rip us off and create work to make money for themselves".

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    What you are actually required to do is to list all the concerns as observations on the EICR, actually being expected to code them without firm guidance from “The powers that be” such as the Government as the law makers, the local councils as enforcers and the IET as authors of the Wiring Regulations which is completely unfair.

    For the landlords EICRs in particular the government should have set out the expected minimum standards, which I think they thought they had done when they said the installations have to comply with the 18th Edition of the Wiring Regulations, possibly not realising that this then left people saying “well it doesn't comply with the current regulations, but it will be okay because it was okay sixty years ago at the time it was installed, so we don't need to replace the lighting circuits that don't have a circuit protective conductor or old fuse board and add RCD protection as all those issues can be given a C3 code and any electrician who doesn't agree is just trying to rip us off and create work to make money for themselves".

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