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Very Odd Domestic consumer unit label

This could be the end of week quiz with a difference.....I have not got a clue on the answer.

This label was stuck on the front of a Domestic Consumer Unit . The Consumer Unit was manufactured 1999 . It has a metal frame but a plastic cover, as per normal, standard Hager things at that time. The fronts were plastic for domestic purpose aesthetics I presume.

The questions are three fold

Why are there boxes on the label to be ticked?

Why is the containment one ticked?

Is this a new tick box approach to Periodic Inspection?

* edited for naughtiness

0 Simon Barker over 3 years ago

AJJewsbury:

Funnily enough I've just come across one of those labels on a plastic CU - but with the 'No' box ticked for 'Containment to Amendment 3' ... the odd thing was that the CU was in a toilet block on a camp site which is as far as I can tell not a domestic (household) premises and so I'm wondering what the non-compliance was thought to be.

It also struck me as a bit amateur to say Amendment 3 without saying which version of BS 7671 was being amended ... especially as we're currently only on AMD 1.

All in all the phase 'stop that! ... it's silly' comes to mind.

- Andy.

What makes you think they thought there was a non-compliance? If there is no requirement for "containment", then it's perfectly OK to tick "no".
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0 Sparkingchip over 3 years ago

I’d forgot my photos of the BG guys fuse board labelling ?
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0 geov over 3 years ago

Fairly certain that the containment wording was added to some labels when the requirement for metal consumer units in domestic premises was introduced. Never made much sense to me.
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