ElectekAir
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Hi guys just having some problems with a job compleated last year.
New owner is going to rent it out so asked another local spark to do a landlords safety test.
Originally the job was done for a developer and he received all the real vent paperwork which seems like he did not pass on to the owner.
The other contractor came up with some interesting points I will try to keep this short,
firstly it is a TT system and they say that the 17th dual RCD installed should have 100ma RCD'ss in them not the 30ma ones code 1
But then how will they archive the required 30ma for all the cct's installed less then 50mm in the walls and also the socket outlets
Main earth bonding to water not connected leaving kitchen sink and taps a risk of electric shock code 1
The 10mm was not connected as the incoming is plastic then goes to polly then small amounts of copper at taps ect.
Light switch in bathroom less than 600mm from the sink code 2
The regs state 600mm from bath or shower so has nothing to do with the sink
No cross bonding on boiler code 2
Have not needed it from the 1990's
None of the cables are sufficiently terminated if consumer unit ( need to be folded over) this will cause nutsince tripping or faults code 4
Why? Not in any regs may be good practice but we don't do it
MCB supplying the cooker is a 40A and is incorrectly rated giving the cct too much power for the circuit it is protecting code 2
The MCB is there to protect the cable only not the load 6mm t+e on a 40 A is ok what about the stereo on the ring main then?
Hob and oven do not have any local isolation code 4
Look in the cuboard above the cooker there is two supply's one for hob one for oven
smoke detection wrong code 5
2 bed house a heat detector in kitchen and a smoke on upstairs landing stairs to landing within 4 m of the kitchen ( I know the distance is irrelavent just to indicate how small the property is) both interconnected
All my answers are in blue don't know why they are giving code1,2,3
looking for the best way to comment to the company on this
New owner is going to rent it out so asked another local spark to do a landlords safety test.
Originally the job was done for a developer and he received all the real vent paperwork which seems like he did not pass on to the owner.
The other contractor came up with some interesting points I will try to keep this short,
firstly it is a TT system and they say that the 17th dual RCD installed should have 100ma RCD'ss in them not the 30ma ones code 1
But then how will they archive the required 30ma for all the cct's installed less then 50mm in the walls and also the socket outlets
Main earth bonding to water not connected leaving kitchen sink and taps a risk of electric shock code 1
The 10mm was not connected as the incoming is plastic then goes to polly then small amounts of copper at taps ect.
Light switch in bathroom less than 600mm from the sink code 2
The regs state 600mm from bath or shower so has nothing to do with the sink
No cross bonding on boiler code 2
Have not needed it from the 1990's
None of the cables are sufficiently terminated if consumer unit ( need to be folded over) this will cause nutsince tripping or faults code 4
Why? Not in any regs may be good practice but we don't do it
MCB supplying the cooker is a 40A and is incorrectly rated giving the cct too much power for the circuit it is protecting code 2
The MCB is there to protect the cable only not the load 6mm t+e on a 40 A is ok what about the stereo on the ring main then?
Hob and oven do not have any local isolation code 4
Look in the cuboard above the cooker there is two supply's one for hob one for oven
smoke detection wrong code 5
2 bed house a heat detector in kitchen and a smoke on upstairs landing stairs to landing within 4 m of the kitchen ( I know the distance is irrelavent just to indicate how small the property is) both interconnected
All my answers are in blue don't know why they are giving code1,2,3
looking for the best way to comment to the company on this