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<blockquote data-quote="phil d" data-source="post: 442890" data-attributes="member: 27126"><p>Simple, on here there are some genuinely clever blokes, unfortunately not all the people who do inspect and test are clever, a lot of them lack basic understanding. A few years ago I was shown a report for my doctors surgery, it had failed for the following reasons, 1/ main earth bonds undersized, 2/ consumer unit with rewireable fuses, 3/ two sockets on a spur.</p><p></p><p>Point one, the place was wired to an earlier version of the regs, it was originally a private bungalow and is now the village doctors surgery, wired when 6mm to gas and water was the norm, and the system is still fine. point 2, there is nothing wrong with fuses, if the board is sound no need to replace it, and most interestingly point 3, the "spur" in question was actually a radial fed from a 15A fuse, it was installed solely to feed 2 computers.</p><p></p><p>There is such a thing as "good for continued service", something a lot of these clowns don't understand, it actually states somewhere that if a premise was wired to an earlier version of the regs then you inspect as such, not basing it just on the current version. I can't wait for a few years down the line, all the houses that were built just before amendment 3 came out and have plastic CU's fitted, these clowns will be going round telling people their install doesn't comply because it has a plastic board!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="phil d, post: 442890, member: 27126"] Simple, on here there are some genuinely clever blokes, unfortunately not all the people who do inspect and test are clever, a lot of them lack basic understanding. A few years ago I was shown a report for my doctors surgery, it had failed for the following reasons, 1/ main earth bonds undersized, 2/ consumer unit with rewireable fuses, 3/ two sockets on a spur. Point one, the place was wired to an earlier version of the regs, it was originally a private bungalow and is now the village doctors surgery, wired when 6mm to gas and water was the norm, and the system is still fine. point 2, there is nothing wrong with fuses, if the board is sound no need to replace it, and most interestingly point 3, the "spur" in question was actually a radial fed from a 15A fuse, it was installed solely to feed 2 computers. There is such a thing as "good for continued service", something a lot of these clowns don't understand, it actually states somewhere that if a premise was wired to an earlier version of the regs then you inspect as such, not basing it just on the current version. I can't wait for a few years down the line, all the houses that were built just before amendment 3 came out and have plastic CU's fitted, these clowns will be going round telling people their install doesn't comply because it has a plastic board! [/QUOTE]
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