yeah ha ****s and giggles, perhaps H+S has gone to my head... Well to be frank I was working with someone doing a periodic...well EICR as it now stands, and it was an old board with poor earthing arrangements which while poor were adequate. The house in question is owned and letted out to students by a friend of the person I was with. Looking at the CU and due to the fact of the nature of students (someone had wedged or broken a socket top off leaving the earth pin in therefore exposing the unshuttered L & N terminals) I thought would an RCD be appropriate here (from the point of view it was a friend and for an extra 20-30 quid it can do alot), the 3036's had new lookin wylex breakers in that resemble the new breaker type yet retained the 3036 pins on the back, breaking capacity of 3KA, while a 17th edition board would be favourable, the costs unsettled the owner who merely stated he was seeking a safet certificate. The EICR would potentially be followed by the works to bring up to regs.
As RCD and an enclosure dont cost very much, yet can do alot in terms of shock protection I queried this idea. The board cant take anymore breakers, a replacement is undesired. to be fair I havent checked to see if these 3036 adaptable things come as RCBO's which I suppose would eliminate any issues.
But it is true this is more a query for the sake of query as opposed to a query to my next step as I doubt I will even be going back to this place.
I hope this hasnt confused matters and would like to acknowledge the time taken to respond, and for that I am grateful.