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Bathrooms, Rcd's, bonding & lack of & grey area's in the regs.
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<blockquote data-quote="park1" data-source="post: 266389" data-attributes="member: 18748"><p>There is always a balance between Cost and Risk, in my opinion the current Regs are an improvement in terms of safety. Take a socket outlet which is used for outdoor equipment, before the requirement of RCD's if a fault occurred it may of been "Potentially Dangerous", unfortunately there is always some risk. The new Regs reduce that risk by the requirement of a RCD, providing the RCD is correctly maintained the "potentially Dangerous" is now negated.</p><p></p><p>I think we need to be careful with the word "Retrospective", if a "potentially Dangerous" situation may of existed in a previous edition, and the new Regs negate that risk, then an improvement can be made to remove that risk, so a code 2 in my opinion.</p><p></p><p>In the OP's instance there are a lot of issues's. Code 2 "Potentially Dangerous", well most of the OP's findings are "Potentially Dangerous"</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="park1, post: 266389, member: 18748"] There is always a balance between Cost and Risk, in my opinion the current Regs are an improvement in terms of safety. Take a socket outlet which is used for outdoor equipment, before the requirement of RCD's if a fault occurred it may of been "Potentially Dangerous", unfortunately there is always some risk. The new Regs reduce that risk by the requirement of a RCD, providing the RCD is correctly maintained the "potentially Dangerous" is now negated. I think we need to be careful with the word "Retrospective", if a "potentially Dangerous" situation may of existed in a previous edition, and the new Regs negate that risk, then an improvement can be made to remove that risk, so a code 2 in my opinion. In the OP's instance there are a lot of issues's. Code 2 "Potentially Dangerous", well most of the OP's findings are "Potentially Dangerous" [/QUOTE]
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