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The General
Okay, I'm preparing to open myself up to some abuse here, but I have had a good read of the BGB before I posted this and I just want to make sure I had things right as I think the regs are perhaps open to interpretation.
I've just done a bathroom makeover with a plumber mate which involved (amongst other things) replacing the existing single light fitting with some new LED downlighters. House is TT with old wylex re-wireable fuses and an old voltage trip upfront of all of it.
Now, what I've done is to put the lighting feed on an RCD fused spur after it leaves the C/Unit, but it just got me to thinking....
When I read 701.32.1 'General' it says that "When applying this section, the zones specified in 701.32.2 to 4 shall be taken into account...."
So.... if the ceiling is above 2.25m or outside the zones, then that means that things like downlighters are not in the location containing the bath or shower and therefore the requirements for additional protection by RCD (701.411.3.3) are not needed?
Have I read this right? Or am I getting the wrong end of the stick?!
In this instance I needed the RCD for other reasons anyway, but had I just been doing the lights, would it have been okay to simply replace the old fitting with the new downlights?
Thanks for your advice guys/gals.
I've just done a bathroom makeover with a plumber mate which involved (amongst other things) replacing the existing single light fitting with some new LED downlighters. House is TT with old wylex re-wireable fuses and an old voltage trip upfront of all of it.
Now, what I've done is to put the lighting feed on an RCD fused spur after it leaves the C/Unit, but it just got me to thinking....
When I read 701.32.1 'General' it says that "When applying this section, the zones specified in 701.32.2 to 4 shall be taken into account...."
So.... if the ceiling is above 2.25m or outside the zones, then that means that things like downlighters are not in the location containing the bath or shower and therefore the requirements for additional protection by RCD (701.411.3.3) are not needed?
Have I read this right? Or am I getting the wrong end of the stick?!
In this instance I needed the RCD for other reasons anyway, but had I just been doing the lights, would it have been okay to simply replace the old fitting with the new downlights?
Thanks for your advice guys/gals.