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FFS....4 pages....62 posts and we still cant agree how to connect a cooker...
I disagree, if fitting a new board then all circuits will be protected with 30mA protection so the 100mA could be binned and an isolator fitted in it's position or tails sent straight into the board.
well...yes...if at a depth of less than 50mm without an earthed metallic covering such as a conduit....its TT however so i would recommend the RCD be replaced with a 30mA one....its upfront feeding a BS3036 board so it doesnt need 100mA for discrimination purposes does it.....if the c/u is also feeding a garage circuit then the 100mA stand alone RCD could be used to feed that....but i would suggest that a 30mA RCD be used to provide additional potection for all other final circuits....it is of course only a recomendation....it would be up to the client/person ordering the work as wether they wish to procede...or not....Yes , you do.
Any cable you install thats buried in the wall needs to be rcd protected , so if youre spurring off a socket for the cooker , then the ring needs a rcd.
Either that or surface fix cable.
my tuppence worth is..... EICR for £150.get the cash in your pocket, then quote for new CU, bonding, new cooker circuit £750.
well when i have to think about something sedg...my head dont ache....how about you?Just think of all the regs that come into effect when you have a job to do which is paying little also in these economic times, I sometimes ask is it worth it. Not many other trades who have all these things to think about, and headaches.
yep. 1st decent bit of plumbing i've seen for ages. just still sore where they cut me to insert the tubes.Your repaired well tel, I would do the same fed up almost every customer pleading poverty these days
saw something similar a bit back....had been on a rod..but was TN-C-S overhead...they had left a cable clipped direct to the outside wall of the property tapped off the overhead neutral...this cable was just cropped at the base...not good....i got the DNO out to sort it.....went there today and did an EICR, all circuits were fine suprisingly (ring with 12 points, lighting circuit with 7 points and a shower) and there is bonding installed to the gas and water upon closer inspection, and no earth rod. it looks to me like the supply has been made into a T-NCS outside, but not inside a the service head??
outside i can see a cable coming from what looks like the sheath of a supply cable being connected up to the neutral tail. the 2 tails grouped at the top go all the way along the row of houses and into every house, the 3rd one at the botom just runs straight accross, i lost sight of it as i couldn't go through the end garden. if i test at the top of the main switch with N+E probes on the N I got 0.13 ohms, if i test with the earth on the MET (with only bonding connected) then the reading is 4.9 ohms.
so, i don't really know what sort of supply it is. I am going to have to make an enquiry to the DNO on monday morning. but what do you lot think?
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