The NICEIC are made up of box ticking morons who are only interested in 5pm each day. They are of little or no use to real life and of no use to the enhancement of the human race.
I can back it up because I am almost the only person who does things correctly, safely, and then applies all the belts and braces - my customers use me because I work on these principles and almost no-one else does.
The mower is 'mobile equipment' and as such should be supplied from a socket suitable for such ie has RCD protection. The hot tub is not mobile & is outside the equipotential zone of the supplying building, so therefore should be treated in exactly the same way as say a remote garage or any...
Plug & Play be buggered! It is external to the building, so should have its own earthing system, ie its own earth rod, consumer unit, & RCD protection, all fully tested & certified. How can anyone possibly send out something which is plug & play when they have no idea what the local conditions...
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