Fuse box and Washer in same room
- Thread starter MidsTW
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.....Quite So
But the BCs around here will refuse to issue completion certs without ventilation requirements met. Woking are especially pedantic about fire alarms too. The problem the uk has is there is too much vagueness at the centre so this emanates out wards and hence the plethora of interpretations
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This is related to gas though?
Can you clarify why building control would need to approve this?
I’m not planing on applying to BC…
It is. However, EFLI asked "where did you see this" and I suggested that (since no such reg relating to water/pipes exists, he might guess that someone had seen the material I quoted about gas pipework and had (incorrectly) extrapolated to water/pipes from that!
In passing, what it says (apparently from BS7689) about gas pipes seems (at least, to me) to be a little bizarre, in that it 'allows' switches and sockets (which can result in sparks and arcs) to be four times close to gas pipes than other things.
Another seemingly odd thing is that, presuming the 'idea' is to avoid 'live' electrical things coming into contact with gas papers, is that the rules/recommendations relating to separation distances exist alongside the requirement (per BS7671) for the gas pipework to be 'main bonded' to the property's'earthing' system. In the case of a TN-C-S electrical installation ("PME"), under certain fault conditions that 'earthing system', and hence any bonded gas pipework, can have a high electrical voltage (relative to 'true earth').
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Keep it like that. Extra fan not needed.
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