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[davesparks]

I think you'll find now your going to get a massive array of answers for this question!! I use the napit codebreaker book which says no RCD for socket outlets and cables buried in the wall is a C2 which i always do. Especially in rented property's

So you can't think for yourself or have any understanding of the regulations, you just blindly follow what is written by someone in a book?

There are many books out there with incorrect information in them, just look at the collected works of DW Cockburn!

 

[Doomed]

I think you'll find now your going to get a massive array of answers for this question!! I use the napit codebreaker book which says no RCD for socket outlets and cables buried in the wall is a C2 which i always do. Especially in rented property's

I dont feel that i do it to get more work as having RCD protection just makes sense, any old idiot could come along and drill and hole in the wall through a cable or swing an extension lead out the 1st floor window, which i have seen.........

Sorry, but no, even the auto fill in NICEIC software boxes have buried cables with no RCD as a C3 along with the rest of the C2's in the OP's original list.

 

[Tommy2002]

I do live in hope he did not sell very many books

 

[pc1966]

From this guide:

https://www.electricalsafetyfirst.org.uk/media/2149/bpg4-1.pdf

Page 12 has C2 for lack of RCD protection for outdoor sockets (or likely used as that) or for bathroom (other than SELV feed, or adequate supplementary bonding).

Page 14 has C3 for the other "lack of RCD" cases mentioned.

 

[davesparks]

From this guide:

https://www.electricalsafetyfirst.org.uk/media/2149/bpg4-1.pdf

Page 12 has C2 for lack of RCD protection for outdoor sockets (or likely used as that) or for bathroom (other than SELV feed, or adequate supplementary bonding).

Page 14 has C3 for the other "lack of RCD" cases mentioned.

If I remember correctly that was taken directly from the 17th Edition, I haven't actually looked to see if it is still in the 18th.
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I've just checked and all it states now is that lack of additional protection by RCD is at a minimum C3.

 

[westward10]

By saying minimum it is essentially saying you must Code it as Code 3 is the minimum.

 

[davesparks]

By saying minimum it is essentially saying you must Code it as Code 3 is the minimum.

Yes, but wasn't it a bit more specific in the 17th? I thought it set out C3 for sockets generally and C2 for bathrooms and external sockets?

I don't know where my copies of the 17th have got to at the moment.

 

[westward10]

Yes, but wasn't it a bit more specific in the 17th? I thought it set out C3 for sockets generally and C2 for bathrooms and external sockets?

I don't know where my copies of the 17th have got to at the moment.

It was the same in the 17th Ed.

 

[pc1966]

Saying lack of RCD is a minimum of C3 makes sense, as clearly it is an aspect that could do with improvement in most cases, but it is not always a major source of danger to merit C2 rating, so one might hope that sensible judgment would be applied.

Hope maybe, not expect.

 

[magnoliafan89]

The hell is an RCD???