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Help with an EICR code please

aligarjon

Hi Guys.

I know this was discussed on the previous forum before it got binned.  I started an EICR on a private rental this afternoon, i am going back there tomorrow to finish as i ran out of time today.

 The boiler is located in a small wet room, it is out of zone 1.  It is fitted in what is basically a wall mounted kitchen cupboard. No lock or even any sort of latch.  There are isolation switches in there for the boiler and a fan from what i could see. 

There are no obvious signs of corrosion.

I remember reading about the door should have a lock or at least some way of keeping it shut but don't know where. Is this written into the regs somewhere as i can't see anything in 701. 

I don't think there is a code here, just maybe an observation / comment about it not being ideal for the location because of possible moisture issues in the boiler .

Does anybody disagree with any of that please.

Thanks.  Gary

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    There used to be a wide held belief (especially in NICEIC contractors around here) that a cupboard with a lock on it (tool or key required to "unlock it") was required to satisfy boilers, immersion heaters, sockets etc being out of bathroom zones if the proximity alone without such door would render them within the zone.

    Now I might be persuaded, to some degree, that a bathroom door has a reasonable expectation of being closed whenever bathroom in use, Therefore items in a hallway/landing might not need such distances.

    However, just because a cupboard has a lockable door does not mean it will get locked/unlocked at every use. So relying on this "technicality"  is a red haddock IMHO. 

    If a cupboard door had such a latch that it locked when clicked shut but needed a tool/key to re-open, then I suppose that might help but I`ve never seen or heard of that situation for a bathroom cupboard.

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    There used to be a wide held belief (especially in NICEIC contractors around here) that a cupboard with a lock on it (tool or key required to "unlock it") was required to satisfy boilers, immersion heaters, sockets etc being out of bathroom zones if the proximity alone without such door would render them within the zone.

    Now I might be persuaded, to some degree, that a bathroom door has a reasonable expectation of being closed whenever bathroom in use, Therefore items in a hallway/landing might not need such distances.

    However, just because a cupboard has a lockable door does not mean it will get locked/unlocked at every use. So relying on this "technicality"  is a red haddock IMHO. 

    If a cupboard door had such a latch that it locked when clicked shut but needed a tool/key to re-open, then I suppose that might help but I`ve never seen or heard of that situation for a bathroom cupboard.

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