socket over cooker

[solo2771]

Hi all, been rewireing lighting in house and fitted new CU but whilst there found the cooker switch and socket are too close to cooker ie level with edge of it.
What I want to know is as the client don't want to move it what do I put on installation cert as it is a non compliance? thanks in advance
Paul

 

[Sav]

Hi Solo,
Your EIC will only cover the lighting circuit and new CU.
Even though you are testing all the installation, as you have put in a new CU, you are not doing a periodic and so the socket is not part of it.
You can advise the customer, but you cant fail it (code1 or 2), as that was probably put there for years before the current regs.
Hope this helps,
Sav

 

[IQ Electrical]

On the EIC, you have a box labelled 'extent of the installation covered by this certificate' in that box, you write 'consumer unit replacement only'.

This then limits your responsibility to exactly that and as Sav said, the offending item has probably been there for years without ill effect so even on a periodic, it would only attract a code 4.