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EICR Coding for smoke detector hard wired into separate property ?

aligarjon

Hi Guys.   I did an EICR on a rental flat today. Flat is above a shop. Flat  has its own meter etc in the flat. Shop is completely separate electrically wise apart from a mains linked smoke detector . Supply to detectors are from the flat.  Installation looks late 80s early 90s. 

I have coded it as a C3 as it isn't dangerous for the flat but could be a problem for somebody working in the shop. I have mentioned it to the shop owner and noted it on the report.  I suspect it has been like it for 20 odd years so probably before the wireless bases were about.  Any thoughts on the coding please or should it not be coded at all.

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Gary

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    Sounds to me that there is a potential non-compliance with section 462 - at least from the point of view of the shop, as part of what's in the shop has no means of isolation, at least not anything available to the occupiers of the shop, unless there's some agreement for access. I can see the argument that the smoke detector in the shop is actually part of the flat's installation rather than the shop's (and nothing in BS 7671 actually defines how neighbouring installations are to be defined/segregated or being able to identify the extent of any installation) but there is a requirement for accessibility of equipment for operation (132.12) which sounds not to be the case here if part of what's in the shop needs to be isolated from inside the flat.

       - Andy.

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    Sounds to me that there is a potential non-compliance with section 462 - at least from the point of view of the shop, as part of what's in the shop has no means of isolation, at least not anything available to the occupiers of the shop, unless there's some agreement for access. I can see the argument that the smoke detector in the shop is actually part of the flat's installation rather than the shop's (and nothing in BS 7671 actually defines how neighbouring installations are to be defined/segregated or being able to identify the extent of any installation) but there is a requirement for accessibility of equipment for operation (132.12) which sounds not to be the case here if part of what's in the shop needs to be isolated from inside the flat.

       - Andy.

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