RCD trip after board upgrade. Frustration who on my side? Who's on landlords? A rant!

[davesparks]

Re: RCD trip after board upgrade. Frustration who on my side? Who's on landlords? A r

Age of alterations is irrelevant as far as EICR coding goes. If the alterations have recently been carried out other than in accordance with the regulations then the owner of the property should take it up with the person who did the work for him.

 

[vxwestie]

Re: RCD trip after board upgrade. Frustration who on my side? Who's on landlords? A r

Out of interest is the a min distance for sockets adjacent to a hob?

 

[trev]

Re: RCD trip after board upgrade. Frustration who on my side? Who's on landlords? A r

Jimmy you're in the clear man, you might get to laugh at him if he comes back with his tail between his legs if you're lucky.

 

[Meggerman]

Re: RCD trip after board upgrade. Frustration who on my side? Who's on landlords? A r

Yes, I agree I should of done this. But in this case I f I would of done that I would of been I the same dispute because this part p landlord. Opulent understand how it was working and isn't now.

Well you got nothing to worry about and you will go in with different approach next time no doubt.

 

[JiMMySnoW]

Re: RCD trip after board upgrade. Frustration who on my side? Who's on landlords? A r

N-E surely? L-E would have took out old fuse

N- e on the oven was 0.97 meg live to earth was 1 meg. I put the oven back in with them reading 3 meg across n-e and l- e. After 10 minutes it tripped, when it heats up perhaps the metal expands even more and then trips out.

 

[Meggerman]

Re: RCD trip after board upgrade. Frustration who on my side? Who's on landlords? A r

Out of interest is the a min distance for sockets adjacent to a hob?

Building regs say 300mm for hobs and sinks. Try that in social housing 1 bed kitchen's and they wont have any!

 

[JiMMySnoW]

Re: RCD trip after board upgrade. Frustration who on my side? Who's on landlords? A r

Well you got nothing to worry about and you will go in with different approach next time no doubt.

Yer man I am disappointed with the way I dealt with him, it just wound me up because I worked a weekend for less money than I would of usually charged and felt I was doing him a good favour. Like I said the mrs was hoping for a friendship to build from this lol.

 

[vxwestie]

Re: RCD trip after board upgrade. Frustration who on my side? Who's on landlords? A r

Thanks meggerman need to refresh my knowledge of building regs then. Wasn't aware or the hob requirement, just the sink...
not the id have anything that close anyhow.

 

[davesparks]

Re: RCD trip after board upgrade. Frustration who on my side? Who's on landlords? A r

Agreed Bs7671 will tell you to disconnect for IR test, but I thought we were referring to the real world here...
i will admit that I've walked away from a db change or RCD install after not testing with the loads connect only to be called back the first time the customer turned on the oven/ immersion etc etc.... Only to find they had a L-E fault
But it was a very long time ago and certainly, the first time was the last time...

The house was empty and I was only there to test the fixed wiring. All the or test came back over 100 meg

I may be wrong as I trained under a previous version of the regs here but is it not a requirement that the testing includes a functional test? ie. turn it all on and make sure it works.

Or is it just me being daft by using common sense when I check that everything works as expected/intended after energising an installation or completeing all other tests on an EICR?

If I have read the OP correctly (not much chance with the state of the written english there) then the fault on the oven is occuring after it has been on for a while ie. its a faulty element which only shorts once it has warmed up a bit and everything has expanded. Basic oven element fault is that one, just test to make sure and then change the element, no need to go changing the whole appliance is there?

Did you even open the oven up to see if there was just a trapped neutral inside it? this is more common than you would think.

 

[Meggerman]

Re: RCD trip after board upgrade. Frustration who on my side? Who's on landlords? A r

Yer man I am disappointed with the way I dealt with him, it just wound me up because I worked a weekend for less money than I would of usually charged and felt I was doing him a good favour. Like I said the mrs was hoping for a friendship to build from this lol.

You never know, if it sinks in and he understands it, you may net an apology and go camping after all!!