On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 14:34:45 -0000, "IMM" wrote:
"Steve Jones" wrote in message
From the link you gave Andy:
DESCRIPTIONS OF WORK WHERE NO
BUILDING NOTICE OR DEPOSIT OF FULL PLANS
REQUIRED
Work which -
(a) is not in a kitchen, or a special location,
"special location"? What is that?
From the SI:
"special location" means a location within the limits of the relevant
zones specified for a bath, a shower, a swimming or paddling pool or a
hot air sauna in the Wiring Regulations, sixteenth edition, published
by the Institution of Electrical Engineers and the British Standards
Institution as BS 7671: 2001 and incorporating amendments 1 and 2.".
(b) does not involve work on a special installation, and
So the above two say any work as long as it is not in a kitchen or a
"special installation" (whatever that is)
No they don't. The word "and" is important here. For exemption,
conditions (a), (b) *and* (c) must apply.
(c) consists of -
(i) adding light fittings and switches to an existing circuit;
(ii) adding socket outlets and fused
spurs to an existing ring or radial circuit; or
So if you leave 1 foot od each of the two wores comming for the 30 amp fuse
from the CU you can do anything. The circuit is existing and sockets and
fused spurs added.
This would appear to meet the letter of the legislation.
We had a thread a while back where somebody suggested putting looped
circuits into a CU for this reason.
It is one more reason why the whole thing, like most of this kind of
legislation, is a nonsense.
(iii) installing or upgrading main or
supplementary equipotential bonding.
I thought adding socket outlets and spurs was not allowed under the new
regs, but this says otherwise. Except for a kitchen.
Yep. You are right. So anything goes as long as it is not in a kitchen or
"special location", whatever that is.
I can see why they homed in on kitchen. This is to prevent cowboy kitchen
fitters slapping cables all around the place. That MPs daughter who died
probably prompted this.
Entirely possible but completely flawed.
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..andy
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