davezawadi

Posts: 4259
Joined: 26 June 2002
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Quoting me as Dave C1 is not quite accurate, if an item which is prohibited from use is still in an installation there is no question that it is a C1. Lets be reasonable, knife switches went out with the ark, and are prohibited except in certain very special circumstances, so when you find one in a bathroom do you give it a C3? Of course you don't. These CUs are considered immediately dangerous from a fire point of view, therefore must be a C1. Anything else is nonsense as you (the inspector) is immediately liable for consequential damages if one catches fire and you have issued a EICR saying it simply does not match the current regs, they were changed because of a significant and immediate danger! Any plastic CU from January is a C1. I bet any comers £10 as before, and it will be one of you unsuspecting inspectors who will be done, not the clubs or manufacturers who say "its OK really, we say C3" because they will not back that opinion with real money when the chips are down, they will run like h££l! Take great care, comments on twitter or the like are only quiet chat, not the law unless it's a libel case. Until one issues a press release saying that plastic installations are satisfactory and the new regulation is an over reaction to a minor problem, would I even consider anything but C1, because my PI insurance is the last thing that needs some claim for someone else's mistake. You are into politics now, not engineering.....
The IET will make no judgement, they are weak and probably incapable. The situation should never have got to this point, and the chairman is the IET???
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David BSc CEng MIET
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