![]() Cables which are to be installed in fixed installations now have to be classified to the Construction Products Regulations 2011.The installation of these is best weighed up on a case by case basis, and whilst there are many benefits to installing these devices, these are just “recommendations” at present. There have been recommendations to fit AFDDs (Arc Fault Detection Devices) to provide additional protection against fire caused by arc faults in AC circuits.As a landlord, your electrician will likely already be installing RCD protection to lighting circuits due to the existing requirements of impact protection of cables. As such this shouldn’t really make any changes “on the ground” to the way we have already being completing work to the 17th edition. In 95% of domestic properties this requirement had already been imposed on new lighting installations anyway. Whilst there was previously no strict requirement to RCD protect light fittings, there was a requirement to provide this protection to cables which were buried less than 50mm from the wall surface. The 18th edition of BS7671 has introduced a requirement to provide RCD protection to circuits supplying lighting fixtures.Also covered is moving sockets & switches (due to the extra lengths of cable involved this would be classed as a new installation) and replacing fuse boards/consumer units. This does not just mean total new build houses or rewires, but additional sockets or lights fall under these regulations as they are classed as “new installations”. Where this will affect you, is if you are having any NEW installation works completing. Damaged sockets or switches can also be swapped, like-for-like. If existing light fittings break then these can still be swapped without needing to rectify other parts of the installation. This will also NOT affect like-for-like swaps. There is no requirement to bring your existing electrical installations up to 18th edition standards. It should be noted that this does NOT backwards apply to existing installations. This means that any new electrical work has to comply with the standards set out in this new document. Whilst the 18th edition of BS7671 (the UK wiring regulations) was actually released on 2nd July 2018, the date after which new installations have to comply is 31st December 2018. F you are a landlord you may (or may not?) have heard that the 18th edition to the wiring regulations were introduced in 2018. ![]()
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