davezawadi

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Joined: 26 June 2002
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Thanks Weirdbeard.
You are absolutely correct! Obviously Jaymack could do with a 2391 update seminar, perhaps he would like to pay me £500 for a quick hour long one.
As inspectors we issue EICRs against the current regulations and this in my view should be a C1 as allegedly this is a severe fire risk. Note that there is no account of the terminal tightness (with a torque wrench if necessary) but any combustible case is banned! Note that current plastic CUs have cases made of plastic which has flame retardants and therefore do not support combustion, but this is no longer satisfactory. The London FB say that fires are caused by the non fire supporting cases so they must go. They do not say (very important this) that fires are caused because the householders do not have EICRs every 5 years, which in my view would be the competent comment, no they say that the plastic is the problem!
I really wonder what is behind this. Have they been primed by the ESC, or their latest charity (as it happens very badly) or some other safety body with unknown credentials (but not the HSE who we know and understand) to make a stand on this? I have now contacted my MP too, because this is not normal. Something is behind these vague and unsubstantiated claims that this is a major cause of house fires, and therefore is worth perhaps £10 billion of taxpayers money. That is the cost of rebuilding perhaps 100,000 dwellings, or 25,000 mansions but is that reasonable? It is also the normally assessed value of 10,000 lives, so where are we going? Is this just a case of H&S gone mad or is there more to it?
It seems to me that this is political not engineering. What is happening? Is London undergoing another great fire from the CU? I haven't seen one yet so probably not. Clearly Engineers are not in control here, they are rational beings who work with facts, and this is so far from fact as to be farcical. You never know, I may be a modern day Samuel Pepys here!
Regards
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David BSc CEng MIET
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