16amp b type breaker for oven.

[julianacb]

Hello all, excuse my bad grammar spelling etc. today i had the people from building control around to sign of my cu change
at my house,here is my question. My mum had her oven changed a little while ago and it has a design current of around 10.5 amps, the old fuse protecting was a 40 amp wired in a 10mm t+e, i have since replaced this with a 16 amp breaker and put connecters at old cooker switch and a blank plate. I done this as section h of osg states you can do this and dont need a switch if the circuit breaker is to be used as one. The inspector told me this is not Good and my interpretation is wrong. And i need a local isolation switch. I want to know what others opinion was on this he also said the oven is not fixed equipment? If im wrong fine but how do i remedy the situation its a double box do i just put the old cooker switch back on. I did do a little search before posting but could not really find what i was looking for. Any advice greatly appreciated!

 

[Geoffsd]

are regs, good practice and common sense 3 different things?

Regs are what we must follow,

good practice is what people think should be done, right or wrong and

common sense is almost non-existent.

 

[julianacb]

Yes its screwed

 

[Engineer54]

Commonsense would tell any competent electrician to provide a means of local isolation to fixed equipment. It certainly wouldn't tell him to remove any perfectly sound existing means of isolation....

 

[Badged01]

Regs are what we must follow,

good practice is what people think should be done, right or wrong

common sense is almost non-existent.

And not forgetting the fourth option ....... forum guidance which can be a mixture of all of the above!

 

[ChrisElectrical88]

We dont have to follow regs, its a non-statuary book.

 

[Engineer54]

If you're not competent to do otherwise, you'd be a fool not to follow BS7671. What i mean by ''Competent'', is being able to stand up in a court of law and successfully argue your departures are technically sound and safety has not been compromised etc...!!

 

[Octopus]

We dont have to follow regs, its a non-statuary book.

Which has to be the most unhelpful post of the year so far.

 

[ChrisElectrical88]

Well yes obviously you would be a fool not to follow the regs and like you say if you get dragged into court your goosed. And yes it wasn't really the most helpful of things, but it is a fact.

 

[Amp David]

Anyone connecting fixed equipment to a CU with RCD's and not having DP isolation is a fool IMHO.

Second this point

 

[telectrix]

Well yes obviously you would be a fool not to follow the regs and like you say if you get dragged into court your goosed. And yes it wasn't really the most helpful of things, but it is a fact.

well, if following regs. meanss drilling into a RFC in the wall, i'd be wary. LOL. :furious3:

 

[Engineer54]

Well yes obviously you would be a fool not to follow the regs and like you say if you get dragged into court your goosed. And yes it wasn't really the most helpful of things, but it is a fact.

In itself maybe, but BS7671 is also part and parcel of other ''Statuatory'' Regulations so in effect you could say that in most cases BS7671 is statuatory by default of other regulations....

 

[GLENNSPARK]

compliance with one....shows conformance with the other...

and even though BS7671 is not statute....they could still use it to demonstrate whether or not you have net the requirements of EAWR1989...which certainly is a statutary document...

The Electricity at Work Regulations 1989