Discuss EICR and unnecessary work? in the Periodic Inspection Reporting & Certification area at ElectriciansForums.net
Round my way a lot of the letting agents won't take on a property unless it has an up to date board fitted. Minimum seems to be RCD on sockets.
I've seen some letting agents state a minimum number of sockets per room, can run into thousands on some properties just to earn a couple of hundred quid each month.Thats a brave thing to do in these current economical times the one I do work for have been doing it for years but tackle it on a if required and peace meal basis
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There was a big thing about these in military accommodation a while back. All's dandy until they run out and are left on, they then overheat and start fires.Last one i read about was plug in fragrance devices, how harmless can they look, but sadly the worst happened and it burnt a house down.
I will be renting out next year and have already decided, no matter what property i rent out, it will have at least a whole house RCD, 240V smoke alarms and a CO alarm.
In my view anything less, then the landlord is not fit to rent out, as this stuff is so cheap compared to a weeks rent.
If i was doing the EICR it would be a C2 for any issue with earthing or RCD protection. Hence un-satisfactory, so best not to call me
Just think the electrical industy is just fuddled over RCDs. Prior to 16th, most houses had one tele, bed-side light, immersion heater, hoover ect you get the picture. Look in a typical house today and its full of phone chargers, games consoles, AV stuff, teles in every room, wireless doorbells and yes even frangrance devices. Its a totally different landscape now, the total number of devices is an order of magnitude greater now.
Its OK making loads of them DI but that doesn't stop them failing sometimes spectaculaly.
I don't see how an RCD will help safety at all with the above mentioned devices, as an RCD will only trip on an imbalance usually L or N to Earth, not between L to N, and most of the above items are class II (no earth), and are likely if/when they go faulty, to be a fault between L to N which an RCD will not detect.
Plug and sparks - In my view, it doesn't really matter what YOU think. The regulations are pretty clearcut, You are only comparing what you find with the regulations as they stand and grading accordingly, You cannot make the regs up as you please, this is what the 'comments' section is for!
I don't see how an RCD will help safety at all with the above mentioned devices, as an RCD will only trip on an imbalance usually L or N to Earth, not between L to N, and most of the above items are class II (no earth), and are likely if/when they go faulty, to be a fault between L to N which an RCD will not detect.
Come on, lets not get ---- about this. OK AV console goes faulty, overheats melts and starts to make a mess of the surrounding area. In which scenario will the power be cut first, with RCD or without. Its not hard to get 30mA to earth somehow.
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