Hi,
I have an Elesca assessment next week and have some questions for those of you who have already done one.
I have done some notifiable work at home and have not notified, because I wanted to self certify and notify through Elesca later - is this a problem?
I have lots of work done at home as exmaples, but i'm picking a couple of specific ones to show - a CCU upgrade and a socket spur. Will the asessor be happy to ignore other work i've done for the sake of the assessment? Not because I want to hide them, but because it would take ages to show everything.
One thing playing on my mind is that I have also run a feed out to a shed and put lighting and power out there. It is all correct with the exception of the cable size I used, which is fine for current capacity but not for volt drop if the full design current is used (which it never is while I own the house). I did the work before I had finished my course and got the calcs wrong (several months ago). Is it reasonable to state that the volt drop is not an issue because despite the MCB rating, the power actually used doesn't cause any vd problems? I think not, because someone can draw the full design current through and will get unacceptable volt drop - although in reality my supply is 14v above the nominal 230 used when the circuit was designed, so would still be perfectly adequate. Unfortunately I think I will have to install bigger cables or reduce the design current by installing something to limit consumption e.g. a fused spur before the shed CCU labelled as MAX 5A, or whatever is needed?
Generally speaking, what sort of things are they likely ask me, and what will they want to see with respect to the practical examples?
Thanks
I have an Elesca assessment next week and have some questions for those of you who have already done one.
I have done some notifiable work at home and have not notified, because I wanted to self certify and notify through Elesca later - is this a problem?
I have lots of work done at home as exmaples, but i'm picking a couple of specific ones to show - a CCU upgrade and a socket spur. Will the asessor be happy to ignore other work i've done for the sake of the assessment? Not because I want to hide them, but because it would take ages to show everything.
One thing playing on my mind is that I have also run a feed out to a shed and put lighting and power out there. It is all correct with the exception of the cable size I used, which is fine for current capacity but not for volt drop if the full design current is used (which it never is while I own the house). I did the work before I had finished my course and got the calcs wrong (several months ago). Is it reasonable to state that the volt drop is not an issue because despite the MCB rating, the power actually used doesn't cause any vd problems? I think not, because someone can draw the full design current through and will get unacceptable volt drop - although in reality my supply is 14v above the nominal 230 used when the circuit was designed, so would still be perfectly adequate. Unfortunately I think I will have to install bigger cables or reduce the design current by installing something to limit consumption e.g. a fused spur before the shed CCU labelled as MAX 5A, or whatever is needed?
Generally speaking, what sort of things are they likely ask me, and what will they want to see with respect to the practical examples?
Thanks