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Octopus

So I was in a new build today - signed off 3 months ago...

No surface trunking, all cables in walls and ceilings ..... the OCPD's for circuits 1 to 3 look wrong to me

Discuss!

Andrea CU.jpg
 
Forgive me if I'm wrong, but I think that the installation has to comply with the regulations at the time of design of the install, so if it was designed 10 years ago and just not built until now it might be legitimate.
I don't think it's credible to claim that a domestic electrical installation has been designed 10 years before its construction. For big projects there is good reason for that (but not with undue delay in starting) but it would be a nonsense to claim that for a domestic and certainly with that length of time passing.
 
I don't think it's credible to claim that a domestic electrical installation has been designed 10 years before its construction. For big projects there is good reason for that (but not with undue delay in starting) but it would be a nonsense to claim that for a domestic and certainly with that length of time passing.
And if it was the case, I doubt they would have fitted a metal clad dual RCD High Integrity Board
 
Forgive me if I'm wrong, but I think that the installation has to comply with the regulations at the time of design of the install, so if it was designed 10 years ago and just not built until now it might be legitimate.
You are correct however if someone was installing now to a design that was ten years old I would be raising more than an eyebrow.
 
you think that's bad ,been to a customers house today .
to put back there light .they had upgrade c/u not one sticker on ,done two weeks ago ,ask the customer any paper work with that ,no he said .I will chase the spark that fitted it.
 
So it’s all in conduit, method B?

Definitely not above the ceiling .....

I was wondering about the reasoning behind having "three" against the smoke alarms rather than 3

The description on cert says "fixed wiring for 3 / 4 bedroom house, 4 storey" ................ whereas its a 3 bedroom, 3 storey house!

Meow

Alan from Afflington - you've been shamed.
 
Definitely not above the ceiling .....

I was wondering about the reasoning behind having "three" against the smoke alarms rather than 3

The description on cert says "fixed wiring for 3 / 4 bedroom house, 4 storey" ................ whereas its a 3 bedroom, 3 storey house!

Meow

Alan from Afflington - you've been shamed.
get the transit ready, we can bundle him into the back of a van and store him in a dry well with a copy of the reguations and guide on inspect and testing
 
I don't think it's credible to claim that a domestic electrical installation has been designed 10 years before its construction. For big projects there is good reason for that (but not with undue delay in starting) but it would be a nonsense to claim that for a domestic and certainly with that length of time passing.
Even if it was a large housing site it is usually developed in phases and each time a phase would of been put out for each of the trades to price
 

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