Stickers on board

[Octopus]

You don't have a choice about applying the labels at or near the distribution board. Whether you think they look great or otherwise is completely immaterial. I try to avoid a distribution board in a press personally. (In fact across the border it is a prohibited practice!)

you lost me!

 

[Midwest]

You don't have a choice about applying the labels at or near the distribution board.QUOTE]

So inside the lid of an A3 CU is 'at or near' then

 

[Risteard]

you lost me!

It was in response to hightower asking whether I would site a DB in a press. I was telling him that I certainly wouldn't by choice, and in fact across the border it is expressly prohibited by the National Wiring Rules.

 

[Risteard]

So inside the lid of an A3 CU is 'at or near' then

I don't think that will wash when it is deliberately concealed. The whole point is that it is visible!

 

[westward10]

You've got good taste in music @westward10 but I can't find a reg number for that one

Actually took this today in a public toilet on Brighton seafront, don't ask.

 

[Midwest]

I don't think that will wash when it is deliberately concealed. The whole point is that it is visible!

I refer my honourable member to the answer I gave before (#8) Care to answer?

 

[Dave OCD]

And yet some CUs are designed for the labels to go inside the hinged cover, that's where I put them regardless and will continue.

 

[Risteard]

I refer my honourable member to the answer I gave before (#8) Care to answer?

Put them directly adjacent to it if you want, or on it. Frankly labels would improve the appearance of those!

 

[mattg4321]

Actually took this today in a public toilet on Brighton seafront, don't ask.

Madeira Drive, next to the cafe? Also features some great lighting inside.

 

[Wilko]

Actually took this today in a public toilet on Brighton seafront, don't ask.

As long as you were practicing safe isolation, then alls well ...

 

[crotley32]

Thanks. This one went on a a bit of a tangent. I don't really understand the point of having a mixed colour sticker. Seens as though the only people looking inside a board would realise straight away there was red/black. Why do we need a sticker to confirm something that obvious

 

[Risteard]

Thanks. This one went on a a bit of a tangent. I don't really understand the point of having a mixed colour sticker. Seens as though the only people looking inside a board would realise straight away there was red/black. Why do we need a sticker to confirm something that obvious

It's more useful on a three-phase four wire system where blue could be either L3 or neutral, and black could be either L2 or neutral.

 

[westward10]

Madeira Drive, next to the cafe? Also features some great lighting inside.

No up towards the old pier, they are like temporary ones.

 

[rolyberkin]

Stick some magnetic tape on the back of laminated stickers and take a photo of them in place, remind your customer to put them back just prior to your assessor coming around for your yearly check!

 

[Midwest]

Put them directly adjacent to it if you want, or on it. Frankly labels would improve the appearance of those!

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Whilst you often give sensible and wisely advice, I think your just digging a hole for yourself here. In a domestic installation (not sure if is the case with this thread), covering the lid with warning labels, in most circumstances will look unsightly and unnecessary.

Reg 514.9 Diagrams & Documentations; for all the 'labels', the most the that is said 'fixed in a prominent position at or near the original of the installation', 'easily legible', 'indelible characters', 'not smaller than illustrated', 'affixed at'. Reg 514.9.1, says 'a durable copy of the schedule...........shall be provided within or adjacent.....'.

The reg doesn't say, these labels most not be mounted on the inside of the lid of a CU. Most manufacturers label mounting instructions, demonstrate them being mounted on the inside of the lid of A3 CU's.

So unless BS7671 decides that this is a 'disastrous loophole', and manufacturers are riding rough shod over the Regs, and this situation needs rectifying in the 18th Edition, there is no reason why these labels cannot be mounted on the inside of a lid of a CU.

 

[Risteard]

I was referring specifically to the Periodic Inspection and RCD test labels which require action to be taken even if the DB isn't opened or accessed. Hiding these is guaranteed to defeat their purpose.

 

[hightower]

Hiding these is guaranteed to defeat their purpose.

To which I refer installing a CU in a cupboard. Or what about a CU that isn't at a naturally visible level/position? Do you then install the stickers at eye level in a prominent position?

 

[telectrix]

why not stick them on the fridge with magnets, like all the other reminders that nobody takes notice of.

 

[Risteard]

To which I refer installing a CU in a cupboard.

I answered that several times. I stated that I never choose to site a DB in a press, and that a mile and a half from here it is in fact an expressly prohibited practice.

It really doesn't alter the fact that going out of your way to conceal advisory and warning notices from those whom they are intended to benefit will defeat their objective. That much should be obvious.

 

[westward10]

I answered that several times. I stated that I never choose to site a DB in a press, and that a mile and a half from here it is in fact an expressly prohibited practice.

It really doesn't alter the fact that going out of your way to conceal advisory and warning notices from those whom they are intended to benefit will defeat their objective. That much should be obvious.

What is a "press".