EICR Explained: Everything You Need to Know!

[@travoltasbiplane1551]

The earth's in separate terminals isn't even a requirement anymore on high protective conductor current circuits... Better practice maybe... But that's only personal opinion

[@ashleycox432]

Brilliant work. I've never seen an electrician doing any work test this thoroughly, and it makes me mad. I design and repair electronics, most of which is low voltage but I naturally encounter mains voltage when working on or building power supplies. Even electricians don't seem to appreciate how deadly mains can be. It's one of the reasons I want to learn more about home electrics.

[@Leon-nn7rn]

Thanks Ashley, absolutely. There is no real sense of care with alot of companies.

[@TheChipmunk2008]

fellow uk sparky, THANK you for being diligent, but i do have one issue, the dual earth terminals are for enhanced earthing. I would consider using both terminals on a normal ring to be substandard? (33 yrs served) Reasoning: the cpc continuity shouldn't rely on an accessory

[@TheChipmunk2008]

this was not a complaint, more a start of a conversation, i am still open to learning

[@TheChipmunk2008]

also, i caught a 350 quid hit from a freezer defrost, lol

[@almartin727]

Totally agree. Big Clive did a great video on a double socket that should have had a path between the two earth terminals but didn’t. I always put both CPCs in one terminal now, or join the two using an additional length of sleeved conductor for high integrity applications 👍

[@TheChipmunk2008]

@@almartin727 yeah we had one, looked EXACTLY like a BG storm outside socket, but from amazon. (customer supplied). No earth on one side during testing. It made me always check both sides of the socket for Zs even with brand new install (which is best practice anyway)

[@andysims4906]

Totally agree . Much more reliable to have both earths in one terminal and not rely on continuity though the socket. It’s no different from having 2 lives or 2 neutrals in one terminal.

[@DimasFajar-ns4vb]

nice time spending sir and peace be upon you from me

[@Leon-nn7rn]

Thank you Dimas :)

[@_eusty]

Out of interest how did you code the blanks in the consumer unit? 🤔

[@mikethemask1525]

No code

[@thearmouredpenguin7148]

A question for any electrician that carries out EICRs. Is there any requirement to carry out a check to ensure that there is no cross connections between circuits? I have watched a number of KZbin videos on EICRs and have never seen anyone do such a check. The reason I ask is that about 30years ago I bought a 1930's house that had a fairly new kitchen extension and I needed to replace a couple of sockets that were damaged. I switched off all the rings at the board only to find that some sockets were still live. Investigation showed that one of the ring mains was cross connected to the kitchen lighting cct. I guess this may have been done as a temporary measure when the kitchen extension was being built, and then forgotten about.

[@Leon-nn7rn]

Yes we do ring continuity that checks that the correct wires are paired up together. We also identify all circuits to make sure they are what they say they are. That is included in the EICR but a good sparks working on a circuit should do it then too.

[@thearmouredpenguin7148]

@@Leon-nn7rn I was aware that checks are carried out for ring continuity and that the correct wires are paired together. The issue I found was that the actual x-connection had actually been made in the loft ( I was totally baffled as to why, but the wiring in the main house was very old) not at the consumer unit, so neither ring continuity nor visual inspection at the board would have detected this issue. As far as I can see the only way to detect such a fault would be to test for no continuity between any of the circuits.

[@mikethemask1525]

If your consumer unit was up to date with RCD or RCBO then it would trip