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So I was in a new build today - signed off 3 months ago...

No surface trunking, all cables in walls and ceilings ..... the OCPD's for circuits 1 to 3 look wrong to me

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Forgive me if I'm wrong, but I think that the installation has to comply with the regulations at the time of design of the install, so if it was designed 10 years ago and just not built until now it might be legitimate.
 
Forgive me if I'm wrong, but I think that the installation has to comply with the regulations at the time of design of the install, so if it was designed 10 years ago and just not built until now it might be legitimate.
I don't think it's credible to claim that a domestic electrical installation has been designed 10 years before its construction. For big projects there is good reason for that (but not with undue delay in starting) but it would be a nonsense to claim that for a domestic and certainly with that length of time passing.
 
I don't think it's credible to claim that a domestic electrical installation has been designed 10 years before its construction. For big projects there is good reason for that (but not with undue delay in starting) but it would be a nonsense to claim that for a domestic and certainly with that length of time passing.
And if it was the case, I doubt they would have fitted a metal clad dual RCD High Integrity Board
 
Being's though that 10 years ago, they had the forethought to anticipate fitting a ferris metal CU in anticipation of a regulation update, they would of done the same for the other anticipated reg changes.

Looks like someone's dropped a metal clad clanger.
 
Forgive me if I'm wrong, but I think that the installation has to comply with the regulations at the time of design of the install, so if it was designed 10 years ago and just not built until now it might be legitimate.
You are correct however if someone was installing now to a design that was ten years old I would be raising more than an eyebrow.
 
may be Pete, that the cables are buried in the wall for those circuits .
Well the OP says, or I believe he says that the first 3 OCPDs look wrong, but I see where you are coming from.
 
you think that's bad ,been to a customers house today .
to put back there light .they had upgrade c/u not one sticker on ,done two weeks ago ,ask the customer any paper work with that ,no he said .I will chase the spark that fitted it.
 
Lack of RCD protection .......... obviously.

Dual colour label - wtf
Smoke alarms label - not completed

And no, the design wasn't 10 years ago ......
Sorry I thought you actually meant that they were wrong types etc
 
you think that's bad ,been to a customers house today .
to put back there light .they had upgrade c/u not one sticker on ,done two weeks ago ,ask the customer any paper work with that ,no he said .I will chase the spark that fitted it.
good luck with that, probably cash in hand
 
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