Hi all,
Apologies for long post.
I have been asked to change two ceiling lights, an extractor fan and shaver socket in a bathroom, this is like for like but the shaver socket and lights would in the zones, therefore in my understanding it makes the job notifiable in England.
There is no RCD protection in the property at all and the DB serving the part of the house in question is located in one of the properties other bathrooms behind a sliding wardrobe door but is within about 1M of the bathroom sink - not sure I am comfortable with said wardrobe door being classed as a secondary boxing as it appears to be left open most of the time.
The bathroom containing the DB was redone a couple of years ago and appears to have had a number of additions / alterations to the circuits so I am surprised the lack of RCD topic didn’t come up then.
DB is a metal MK one from 16th Edition days and covers all lights over 4 floors as well as sockets.
DB is fed from a mains isolator in another part of the property via 16mm T&E, no overcurrent protection.
I really don’t want to be looking at replacing the whole DB and or moving it out of the bathroom where it has happily resided for probably 20+ years and the customer isn’t keen on the costs / disruption that would cause.
My thought currently is to use a Switch Fuse (60A fuse) with an RCD as the main switch to protect the DB supply cable and give this portion of the installation some RCD protection and recommend they put a secondary cabinet around the DB.
i realise that this potentially opens the doors to other regs issues i.e. nuisance tripping etc but I am looking for a sensible compromise solution between leaving as is ( I.e. not doing the job) and fitting a whole new RCBO DB outside the bathroom that leaves the customer with a safer installation.
How would you approach this?
Paul
Apologies for long post.
I have been asked to change two ceiling lights, an extractor fan and shaver socket in a bathroom, this is like for like but the shaver socket and lights would in the zones, therefore in my understanding it makes the job notifiable in England.
There is no RCD protection in the property at all and the DB serving the part of the house in question is located in one of the properties other bathrooms behind a sliding wardrobe door but is within about 1M of the bathroom sink - not sure I am comfortable with said wardrobe door being classed as a secondary boxing as it appears to be left open most of the time.
The bathroom containing the DB was redone a couple of years ago and appears to have had a number of additions / alterations to the circuits so I am surprised the lack of RCD topic didn’t come up then.
DB is a metal MK one from 16th Edition days and covers all lights over 4 floors as well as sockets.
DB is fed from a mains isolator in another part of the property via 16mm T&E, no overcurrent protection.
I really don’t want to be looking at replacing the whole DB and or moving it out of the bathroom where it has happily resided for probably 20+ years and the customer isn’t keen on the costs / disruption that would cause.
My thought currently is to use a Switch Fuse (60A fuse) with an RCD as the main switch to protect the DB supply cable and give this portion of the installation some RCD protection and recommend they put a secondary cabinet around the DB.
i realise that this potentially opens the doors to other regs issues i.e. nuisance tripping etc but I am looking for a sensible compromise solution between leaving as is ( I.e. not doing the job) and fitting a whole new RCBO DB outside the bathroom that leaves the customer with a safer installation.
How would you approach this?
Paul