Quote Originally Posted by frank View Post
My son's a sparky and he visited today with the grandkids - great.

We got around to talking about all the retraining we have to go through soon to stay up to date with current regs.

He was telling me although he is NICEIC registered, that he too must undertake 4 days of retraining to be able to continue to sign certificates now that the 17th edition is due to become in force on the 1st July.

He also mentioned that one of the biggest changes is to socket outlets. All socket outlets installed or amended from 1sy July will have to be rcd protected no matter what they are feeding.
A veritable nightmare of call back caused by nuisance tripping.

The 17th edition will require all circuits where the cables are concealed in walls or partitions less than 50mm deep and not protected by earthed conduit etc, to be protected by a 30ma RCD. This will apply to lighting circuits as well.The adopted method of complying, may be the use of individual RCBO's (combined rcd/mcb)to minimise the inconvenience and dangers of tripping. The use of SWA cable for circuits would not require RCD protection.

Hope this helps