I Cant think properly...

[flyingsparks]

Should a 16h Edition install with Split load board, so rcd on sockets etc but not lighting and cables buried in wall, on a periodic would you give it a 4 (doesnt comply to bs7671 17th ed) or a 2 requires improvement? Should know but Its been a 13hour day and 200 miles, and I'm tired!

 

[securespark]

I'd say 4 meself.

 

[EFLImpudence]

Its been a 13hour day and 200 miles, and I'm tired!

I used to have a car like that.

 

[JohnW2]

Should a 16h Edition install with Split load board, so rcd on sockets etc but not lighting and cables buried in wall, on a periodic would you give it a 4 (doesnt comply to bs7671 17th ed) or a 2 requires improvement? Should know but Its been a 13hour day and 200 miles, and I'm tired!

You have my sympathies - but aren't we 4 days into EICRs - in which case, as I understand it, code 4 no longer exists? (which makes the decision even more difficult, I would have thought)

Kind Regards, John

 

[Adam_151]

C3

 

[flyingsparks]

Please expand on this ECIR's thingy?! and C3?? I'm employed and unfortunatly our bosses dont always pass on important information!!!

 

[JohnW2]

Please expand on this ECIR's thingy?! and C3?? I'm employed and unfortunatly our bosses dont always pass on important information!!!

As per Amendment 1 (2011) of BS7671:2008, as of 1st January 2012, PIRs no longer exist, and have been replaced by EICRs (Electrical Installation Condition Report) - and that only has three codes for you to choose from. In essence, what would have been code 4 on a PIR has now disappeared, leaving you to have to choose between C3 (improvement recommended, or something like that) and not coding it at all. [I don't have my BGB with me at the moment]

It sounds as if you may need to ask/tell your employer to buy some copies of the BGB.

Kind Regards, John

 

[Taylortwocities]

Please expand on this ECIR's thingy?! and C3?? I'm employed and unfortunatly our bosses dont always pass on important information!!!

Have a read of this http://www.esc.org.uk/fileadmin/use...y/best_practice/BestPracticeGuide4-Locked.pdf

Then you'll be several steps ahead of your bosses

 

[holmslaw]

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[RF Lighting]

But you're inspecting to the current edition of BS7671, so it is not compliant.

 

[canduit]

But what if you were carrying out a (periodic) inspection with a view to giving a report when the property had a complete rewire in, say, sometime in the 60/70's? Which, or what parameters would one go by?

 

[RF Lighting]

You would carry out the inspection to the current edition of BS7671, and list anything that is not compliant with the current regs.

Wether it needs remedial action because it is non compliant is entirely different.

 

[holmslaw]

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[JohnW2]

.... I believe the IET have resurrected an outdated unworkable requirement, and that is for every defect the reg No must be quoted, a method that was tryed and abandoned by the electrical industry donkeys years ago.

I've seen this suggested before (maybe by you?) but I don't know where it comes from. I can find it nowhere in the BGB, section K of the EICR form has no column/provision for recording the regulation number and the EICR guidance notes say nothing about it.

Can you point us towards the source of your suggestion?

Kind Regards, John.

 

[holmslaw]

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