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Fused Isolator switch for Bathroom? Question for Electricians
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SteveVy
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Hi Folks,
I am selling a 2018 new build property and decided to have an EICR completed as I have had some electrical work completed in the past including having an additional bathroom extractor fan fitted to the en-suite.
The electrician is at the property now and I am at work (100 miles away).
The electrician is advising that none of the extractor fans in the other 3 bathrooms have a 'fused isolator' I know they all have dedicated switches outside to control the power to these (they are not fused just like normal light switches) and only operate the extractor fan in each bathroom. The fans are standard 4" Vent Axia fans and came with the house so I assume are safe.
He is advising me I need to pay around £75 per bathroom to have fused isolator switches fitted or the EICR will fail?
Please can you tell me if this is right or wrong?
I am selling a 2018 new build property and decided to have an EICR completed as I have had some electrical work completed in the past including having an additional bathroom extractor fan fitted to the en-suite.
The electrician is at the property now and I am at work (100 miles away).
The electrician is advising that none of the extractor fans in the other 3 bathrooms have a 'fused isolator' I know they all have dedicated switches outside to control the power to these (they are not fused just like normal light switches) and only operate the extractor fan in each bathroom. The fans are standard 4" Vent Axia fans and came with the house so I assume are safe.
He is advising me I need to pay around £75 per bathroom to have fused isolator switches fitted or the EICR will fail?
Please can you tell me if this is right or wrong?
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Most manufacturers state that their extractor fans must be locally fused down. Frankly it's a load of nonsense, but they almost universally are the manufacturers' instructions.0
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As for 'Is this quote fair?' £75 per switch sounds a bit steep.
https://www.cef.co.uk/catalogue/products/4912421-10a-triple-pole-fan-isolator-switch-with-3a-fuse-white
Less than £9 (retail) per switch to buy and what, 5 minutes max to change.
It's nonsense as Risteard says - apart from anything else if your fan has a delay (as it should for building regs) you'll have a live and a switched live feed, and the fused isolator can only add a fuse to one of those, so you'll still have an unfused live to your fan.
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YellowCarBlueCar said:As for 'Is this quote fair?' £75 per switch sounds a bit steep.
https://www.cef.co.uk/catalogue/products/4912421-10a-triple-pole-fan-isolator-switch-with-3a-fuse-white
Less than £9 (retail) per switch to buy and what, 5 minutes max to change.
It's nonsense as Risteard says - apart from anything else if your fan has a delay (as it should for building regs) you'll have a live and a switched live feed, and the fused isolator can only add a fuse to one of those, so you'll still have an unfused live to your fan.
It doesn't take "5 minutes max to change". That's just nonsense.
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