Electrician Jobs Oven switch isolator is missing, C2 on EICR

[MDJ]

The MCB on the Cooker circuit could be classed as an Isolating switch, I am not 100% on this one so have kept quiet thus far, however I believe a local isolator for a socket with an appliance plugged into it is not mandatory, please speak up if I am wrong here.

 

[Dillb]

The disagree/dumb button needs to go - if not just to calm you down @spinlondon!
People would verbalise their disagree/dumb if no button available .

Exactly, bring back the like and thanks button as it used to be. Then hopefully more people would be partaking in threads and debates.

 

[MDJ]

Lets have a Muppet button, thats my view

 

[Octopus]

Lets have a Muppet button, thats my view

You’d get loads of these.

 

[Dillb]

Lets have a Muppet button, thats my view

Which one though?

 

[MDJ]

HAHA, well pick me one hehe

 

[Dillb]

HAHA, well pick me one hehe

I always think this is what you look like.

 

[MDJ]

I always think this is what you look like.

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Cheers Pal, I like Fozzy, Might even consider that as an Avatar

 

[Marcus Vaughan]

I probably would not code it - certainly not a C2 anyway.

With talk of whether the means of isolation is mandatory - I know that if I was to install any integrated appliance in a kitchen tomorrow without ‘reasonable access’ to isolation, then I’m pretty sure my local BCO would not accept it. They are pretty keen on that round here - not even accepting a SFU in the back of an adjacent cupboard.....

That idea of ‘you can isolate at the CU’ does not seem to fly....

 

[MDJ]

Funny how a lot of Pubs are wired straight from the MCBs to sockets and lights without switches and it gets certified and passed.

 

[Octopus]

Mike ....... I think this is more appropriate ....

 

[Taylortwocities]

This was covered earlier.
You cannot "C anything" unless it contravenes a regulation in BS7671.
There is no regulation that says that ovens must have a point of isolation. There's mention of such a thing in the OSG book (written by the Brothers Grimm) but its a guide, and there's no corresponding regulation.

So, again, if someone cares to find a relavent regulation , and prove me wrong, then go ahead.

 

[Igor Taranenko]

Thank you all for your views, interesting discussion as with few different opinions. I will install isolator after I've spoken to a client as means of convenience and to avoid any potential issue with BCO. I do also think it's isn't a requirement. The oven is electric which I think it's irrelevant.

Thanks

 

[Deleted member 26818]

Has anyone else asked a BCO to sign the design part of an EIC after they’ve started making demands for changes to an installation?

 

[Octopus]

Thank you all for your views, interesting discussion as with few different opinions. I will install isolator after I've spoken to a client as means of convenience and to avoid any potential issue with BCO. I do also think it's isn't a requirement. The oven is electric which I think it's irrelevant.

Thanks

Whats the BCO got to do with it?