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sambuca2907
Hi all - Trying to find out if someone can help with with this small problem I've got! I'm trying to find a sensible solution for it!
I'm a fully qualified electrician, Part P registered, 2391 booked in June. I completed last year a small utility room extension consisting of 7 GU10 spots, 3 in a row at high ceiling level, and a grid of 4 over the appliances. This was self-certified by myself in compliance with Part P.
Recently the builder has had the council inspector round to sign off the extension, and he has said that it has failed on Part L... He says 2 out of the 7 lights need to be low energy.
Who in their right mind would install 5 of one type of fitting in a room and 2 totally different... the customer would not be very happy at all! I have read Part L of the regs and I think you can "play around" with this rule a bit, by for example changing older lights within the house for low energy instead. Would this keep the council building inspector happy? Or... would a solution be to change 2-3 of the lights in the extension to 3Watt LED's?
I need to make changes to allow the council inspector to pass the building work, but what is suitable!? The customer requested halogen GU10's, and won't want 2-3 of them a different type or colour!
The other thing is that I have worked on sites with £200,000 worth of Lutron equipment controlling 230V GU10's..... hundreds of them, so many in fact that we nearly popped a 100A 3-phase main fuse turning them all on...! How do these big houses pass these regulations??? When the inspectors are so petty with the small expensions...?!
I'm a fully qualified electrician, Part P registered, 2391 booked in June. I completed last year a small utility room extension consisting of 7 GU10 spots, 3 in a row at high ceiling level, and a grid of 4 over the appliances. This was self-certified by myself in compliance with Part P.
Recently the builder has had the council inspector round to sign off the extension, and he has said that it has failed on Part L... He says 2 out of the 7 lights need to be low energy.
Who in their right mind would install 5 of one type of fitting in a room and 2 totally different... the customer would not be very happy at all! I have read Part L of the regs and I think you can "play around" with this rule a bit, by for example changing older lights within the house for low energy instead. Would this keep the council building inspector happy? Or... would a solution be to change 2-3 of the lights in the extension to 3Watt LED's?
I need to make changes to allow the council inspector to pass the building work, but what is suitable!? The customer requested halogen GU10's, and won't want 2-3 of them a different type or colour!
The other thing is that I have worked on sites with £200,000 worth of Lutron equipment controlling 230V GU10's..... hundreds of them, so many in fact that we nearly popped a 100A 3-phase main fuse turning them all on...! How do these big houses pass these regulations??? When the inspectors are so petty with the small expensions...?!
