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Went to daughters house to replace a couple of broken sockets and did a Zs and RCD test after replacing. CU was replaced and notice on it said inspected 2015. Plastic dual RCD 30 ma/Main switch 60947-3 isolator. System is TT. (100ma RCD?)
Zs at socket was 11.75 ohms L-PE 2.64 ohms L-N. No bonding present to services. Suggested my daughter might get the council in to check it out. Had a phone call today and electrician said it is all compliant! He also said it disconnects in 0.37ms and I asked to talk to him he would not. He said I was just trying to make money, if only he knew? Apparently he fixed the bonding in a few minutes.
I said to my daughter tell him it should be 0.2 (the property is not cross bonded as in the exception to table 41.1) he said that was the case 20 years ago and I needed to get up to date. Okay!
I must confess to be a little bit taken aback by this and thought I would do a sanity check with the forum members. I do have Amd 3 BS7671 by the way i.e. 2382-15 so I think I am up to date.
Essentially I am of course concerned for my daughter, and what appears to be possibly a cavalier attitude. I told my daughter to get a copy of the report and tests so we await that. Am I being concerned over nothing or just plain stupid??? Tin hat on.
 
The 0.37mS time for the RCD would comply at both 1x and 5xIn so would pass.

As for plastic board in 2015 all depends on when the installation was designed, might be the council has a generic design for those properties.
 

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