Hi Guys,
Attached are my forms. Would appreciate it if you could check to see if I've ticked the correct boxes and my results look ok.
One other cause for concern is item 7.7 on the schedule of inspections.
The earthing conductor present before the board change was 6mm and so it needed to be upgraded to at least 10mm (tails are 16mm). I upgraded to 16mm.
I did not realise at the time that the tails and earthing conductor were 3 core.
It was not possible for me to bring the new earthing conductor along the same path as the 3 core cable without a lot of chasing.
I opted to bring the new earthing conductor into the house by a different route aided with trunking and fire clips where needed.
All circuits and tails were chased when installed (some 40 years ago) and entered the old fuse board through the back. I have brought all those cables through the back of the new consumer unit however I could not (without chasing and running the risk of damaging the already installed cabling) bring the new earthing conductor in through the rear.
I have read varying opinions on this with some saying it is ok for the earthing conductor to enter through a separate hole of the consumer unit (with some saying niceic advise that it doesnt apply to meter tails and earthign conductor so long as meter tails L & N enter same hole) and some saying it's not ok and should be noted as a deviation from the regs.
What would you guys do for assessment purposes? Would you enter it as a deviation? Would an assessor accept a deviation like this?
Sincere thanks to you all for the help so far