This morning's bit of handy work

[GLENNSPARK]

I have installed a couple recently leaving the non protected as the spares! The most recent one I left the garage db circuit on an mcb only so the garage/garden circuits wouldn't affect the house

yep....

considering earthing arrangements of course....

 

[ipf]

I have installed a couple recently leaving the non protected as the spares! The most recent one I left the garage db circuit on an mcb only so the garage/garden circuits wouldn't affect the house

rcbo ?

 

[Octopus]

yep....

considering earthing arrangements of course....

Yup. Plenty of wet dirty earth in the garden.

 

[GLENNSPARK]

rcbo ?

is he on about hi-integ or split load?

 

[Octopus]

rcbo ?

Didn't the look of the DIY work off db2 so this use of the mcb was agreed with the client!

 

[GLENNSPARK]

Yup. Plenty of wet dirty earth in the garden.

oh...

just TT the shed then....

 

[not clever]

It always comes down to price though and until RCBOs come down I don't think I can sell hi integrity boards at a price that people really want to pay.

I use all RCBO boards now, DP single module compact rcbo's at £15.60 inc vat each.

 

[GLENNSPARK]

Didn't the look of the DIY work off db2 so this use of the mcb was agreed with the client!

but if the work coming of DB2 was substandard....then shouldn`t juice it up till its brought into compliance....

 

[ipf]

but if the work coming of DB2 was substandard....then shouldn`t juice it up till its brought into compliance....

Thats what I'm thinking.....but don't know the facts.

 

[Octopus]

but if the work coming of DB2 was substandard....then shouldn`t juice it up till its brought into compliance....

Yeh right. Client has deep pockets and very short arms. My estimate and cert make the scope of works perfectly clear. Db1

 

[GLENNSPARK]

Yeh right. Client has deep pockets and very short arms. My estimate and cert make the scope of works perfectly clear. Db1

feigning skintness (always a lie) is no excuse ....

and your feeder for DB2?

 

[Octopus]

feigning skintness (always a lie) is no excuse ....

and your feeder for DB2?

Surface run. Good ir. R1 + R2 as expected. Zs the same

 

[GLENNSPARK]

Surface run. Good ir. R1 + R2 as expected. Zs the same

OK but the point i was really trying to make Murdoch is that you have implied that there are dodgy finals coming off DB2...so you havn`t given it additional protection....which leads me to ask:

any additional/fault protection by means of RCD in the shed?

 

[Knobhead]

So Glenn, would you tell the customer you can’t connect power to their garage DB before or after you’ve started the job?

Before, you loose the job.
After, the customer is liable to shove your regs book where it will need surgically removing.

 

[GLENNSPARK]

So Glenn, would you tell the customer you can’t connect power to their garage DB before or after you’ve started the job?

Before, you loose the job.
After, the customer is liable to shove your regs book where it will need surgically removing.

well i wont leave myself open to any possible `examination` by some `authority` someware...

but i will reduce potentials to a minimum...wherever i can...

 

[ipf]

So Glenn, would you tell the customer you can’t connect power to their garage DB before or after you’ve started the job?

Before, you loose the job.
After, the customer is liable to shove your regs book where it will need surgically removing.

Oh, just shove it on an rcbo, that'll show him he has a problem, at least.

 

[Engineer54]

One comment, ...why not use a bit of blue heat shrink on those neutral connection ferrules, and also maybe cut the length down a little too. Sorry i just have a pet hate of seeing bare conductors within CU/DBs etc....

 

[davesparks]

You can get yourself a nice 10W schneider enclosure with 6 SPSN single module RCBO's with all appropriate bussbars and blanks for about £120, cheaper than doing it with many brands of SP RCBO and it gives you proper segregation of circuits.

 

[davesparks]

One comment, ...why not use a bit of blue heat shrink on those neutral connection ferrules, and also maybe cut the length down a little too. Sorry i just have a pet hate of seeing bare conductors within CU/DBs etc....

Believe it or not that is how MK supply them,

 

[Engineer54]

Believe it or not that is how MK supply them,

Maybe, but i for one certainly wouldn't leave them like that.... Though it seems from other CU upgrade photo's, most are prepared to leave them being oversized and bare, but as i say ..Not I! lol!!