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JC94
Morning all,
I've got a quick question regarding a consumer unit change.
Basically, i'm using my parents house for my NIC assessment installations, one of which I'll be changing the consumer unit. Now here's where i'm a bit curious as what to do...
The house is a small-medium sized 3 bedroom house, originally a council property, and has 1 ring final supplying the socket outlets in the house (including the kitchen). There's only my parents and brother living there and most of the time the house is empty until the evening.
So i'm going to carry out an EICR before changing over the CU to make sure everything is safe and fine and as long as the results come up okay i'll replace it.
My question is would you say it would be okay to keep the one existing ring main as it is (it is under 100m2) or would this be pulled up in my assessment? I understand that the kitchen should really be on it's own RFC due to appliances etc, personally I would do that, but they would prefer if all the tiles didn't have to come off the wall or any floorboards lifted upstairs.
Like I said, no tests carried out just yet so I couldn't give you the current Ze/Zs Values but will post them up when I'm round there next, the supply system is a TN-S converted to a TN-C-S.
Cheers :icon4:
I've got a quick question regarding a consumer unit change.
Basically, i'm using my parents house for my NIC assessment installations, one of which I'll be changing the consumer unit. Now here's where i'm a bit curious as what to do...
The house is a small-medium sized 3 bedroom house, originally a council property, and has 1 ring final supplying the socket outlets in the house (including the kitchen). There's only my parents and brother living there and most of the time the house is empty until the evening.
So i'm going to carry out an EICR before changing over the CU to make sure everything is safe and fine and as long as the results come up okay i'll replace it.
My question is would you say it would be okay to keep the one existing ring main as it is (it is under 100m2) or would this be pulled up in my assessment? I understand that the kitchen should really be on it's own RFC due to appliances etc, personally I would do that, but they would prefer if all the tiles didn't have to come off the wall or any floorboards lifted upstairs.
Like I said, no tests carried out just yet so I couldn't give you the current Ze/Zs Values but will post them up when I'm round there next, the supply system is a TN-S converted to a TN-C-S.
Cheers :icon4:
