Quarterly-6 monthly crap!

[Deleted member 9648]

So we are 6 months in to the 18th and still every RCD test label supplied with boards/RCBO's comes with a quarterly label. 14 starbreaker RCBO's fitted today..all with quarterly labels. Shouldn't manufacturers be binning their old stickers and supplying the correct ones? I'm having to make up a '6 monthly' label on the brother printer and cut it down so it fits over the offending bit. Is anyone else bothering or just using the old?
BTW the change to 6 monthly must be one of the most pointless reg changes in a sea of pointless reg changes. (IMO)

 

[Andy78]

Just using the old ones myself. As I see it a quarterly test label goes above and beyond the current requirements so is still compliant.

 

[Octopus]

I think a reg that needs removing is the need for the dual colour warning label

A waste of time, materials and a pointless box to tick,
...

 

[James]

So we are 6 months in to the 18th and still every RCD test label supplied with boards/RCBO's comes with a quarterly label. 14 starbreaker RCBO's fitted today..all with quarterly labels. Shouldn't manufacturers be binning their old stickers and supplying the correct ones? I'm having to make up a '6 monthly' label on the brother printer and cut it down so it fits over the offending bit. Is anyone else bothering or just using the old?
BTW the change to 6 monthly must be one of the most pointless reg changes in a sea of pointless reg changes. (IMO)

you can put a sticker on that says test every 5 years, it will not be adhered to.

you can put a sticker on that says test every 5 minutes, it will not be adhered to.

you can put a sticker on that says stick finger up bum whilst pressing this button, it will not be adhered to.

these stickers are a CYA for manufacturers and the people writing the regs.

IN MY HUMBLE OPPINION!!

 

[Wilko]

Here’s a thought - that manufacturer’s instruction must be for quarterly tests

 

[Deleted member 9648]

Just using the old ones myself. As I see it a quarterly test label goes above and beyond the current requirements so is still compliant.

Might do the same.....trouble is the tick box on NIC certs clearly states 6 monthly label applied....only a teeny-weeny white lie I suppose.
Tell you what though, it was a nightmare getting 14 labels on that crabtree board as well.

 

[Charlie_]

Put a little number 6 sticker over the 4

 

[buzzlightyear]

who f88King reads them any why ,drag the customer by the scruff of the neck to the consumer unit read this .

 

[Baddegg]

who f88King reads them any why ,drag the customer by the scruff of the neck to the consumer unit read this .

Customer the other day didn’t even know where they unit was....let alone what was written on it!

 

[Dustydazzler]

Customer the other day didn’t even know where they unit was....let alone what was written on it!

I had this a few months ago

Friend of my parents wanted a few extra sockets in their lounge.
So as you do I went round to take a quick look.
One of the first things I do is ask to see the consumers unit.

Lady stared blankly at me for a good 45-50seconds , she said and I quote ‘ I don’t think we have one of those’

I then spend the next 10 minutes trying to find it , eventually I found the old 3036 board in the down starts toilet completely boxed and in along with the soil waste pipe directly behind the loo.
I only found it because the meter box on the outside was roughly 3 feet away on the outside wall.

The lady was shocked as had never seen it before In the 30 years they had lived in the house