RCD Protection For Old Installations

GTB: 
 

Sparkingchip: 
 

There are no set rules, so you have to make a decision and be able to justify your reasons for coding it as you did.

So, is it a house with a garden and driveway where people may be using electrical gardening tools and equipment or washing a car with an electric pressure washer?

Is it a flat without access to any outdoor areas?

 

 

Karolis what experience do you already have of carrying out EICR's? Have you just done a handful, hundreds or thousands? have these been in residential premises, landlord premises, commercial, industrial etc? Have you attended any formal inspection and testing courses?

So forget you are doing for now this EICR on this landlords property. And you were inspecting an commercial or industrial property with the exact same age of installation, method of installation and protection methods, how would you code that installation?

GTB

 

More of a handful,  I do not practice now full time as an electrician anymore, so doing just some odd jobs when requested. I`ve done mostly domestic, a few landlord, and a couple of commercials, but mostly new or with rcd protection installations. This is the first one where the line is so thin to distinguish the best outcome. 

Yes, I have 2391. 

No commercial or industrial of the same age. 

Domestic of the same age yes, but still it had RCD fitted, in a split board, with couple spare slots. The board in question does not have even one slot left.

GTB: 
 

Sparkingchip: 
 

There are no set rules, so you have to make a decision and be able to justify your reasons for coding it as you did.

So, is it a house with a garden and driveway where people may be using electrical gardening tools and equipment or washing a car with an electric pressure washer?

Is it a flat without access to any outdoor areas?

 

 

Karolis what experience do you already have of carrying out EICR's? Have you just done a handful, hundreds or thousands? have these been in residential premises, landlord premises, commercial, industrial etc? Have you attended any formal inspection and testing courses?

So forget you are doing for now this EICR on this landlords property. And you were inspecting an commercial or industrial property with the exact same age of installation, method of installation and protection methods, how would you code that installation?

GTB

 

More of a handful,  I do not practice now full time as an electrician anymore, so doing just some odd jobs when requested. I`ve done mostly domestic, a few landlord, and a couple of commercials, but mostly new or with rcd protection installations. This is the first one where the line is so thin to distinguish the best outcome. 

Yes, I have 2391. 

No commercial or industrial of the same age. 

Domestic of the same age yes, but still it had RCD fitted, in a split board, with couple spare slots. The board in question does not have even one slot left.