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Electrical Safety Requirements for Masonic Guildhall

Steven Wright

I am the deputy site manager for a beer festival that was held at the Masonic Guidhall in a suburb of Greater Manchester. The installation is over 60 years old, no documentation, old bakelite mcbs, no rcds and multiple violations. The majority of the ground floor is supplied from a single 40amp fuse and a series of consumer units. Needless to say there were frequent power outages 

I have submitted my report and need ammunition to back up why they need to see an EICR or equivalent. Nobody seems to be taking this seriously!

Comments please.

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    I may be missing something but can you not run extension leads from the next floor up if it's on a separate 40 amp fuse that way you'll spread the load  and avoid fuse blowing. Also it may help to avoid or reduce lamp flicker when the coolers start up. Probably more noticeable if they have proper lights rather than LEDs

  • 0 in reply to Kelly Marie Angel

    Problem  is for all we know the upstairs supply is the same main fuse or at least just as flakey - remember it is not well documented. Really the building owners need to be a bit more pro-active if they want to hire this place out, but I suspect the only lever is threatening not to come or demanding a price drop.

    The advantage of asking for a 3 phase event socket supplied from the incomer is that there is none of the same risk of extension leads from we don't know where that may already share with other loads or be on lightly fused submains / branches. And it is quite am easy and quick thing for the building owners to organise compared to say a full rewire. From the user point of view it is a halfway house, the hired indoor cables and so on are the same as a genset, but without the fuel the noise and the piece of plywood as a cable entry board cut to fit a window that has to stay open....

    Mike

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  • 0 in reply to Kelly Marie Angel

    Problem  is for all we know the upstairs supply is the same main fuse or at least just as flakey - remember it is not well documented. Really the building owners need to be a bit more pro-active if they want to hire this place out, but I suspect the only lever is threatening not to come or demanding a price drop.

    The advantage of asking for a 3 phase event socket supplied from the incomer is that there is none of the same risk of extension leads from we don't know where that may already share with other loads or be on lightly fused submains / branches. And it is quite am easy and quick thing for the building owners to organise compared to say a full rewire. From the user point of view it is a halfway house, the hired indoor cables and so on are the same as a genset, but without the fuel the noise and the piece of plywood as a cable entry board cut to fit a window that has to stay open....

    Mike

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