R
Rodolphe
Hi guys,
In a nod back to my previous life as an office bod, I am working with a company looking at bringing a new product to the UK market. They have been trading for 3 years or so in France.
Basically, the kits they sell are made on the one hand of off-the-shelf components (made by companies like Roca, SAS, Geberit and Fluidmaster), with a special resin basin which they manufacture themselves. I haven't yet checked, but I'm darn confident that those components from external suppliers will be compliant/approved.
My question is this:
- is the basin likely to require WRAS approval as well? Is a basin even considered a fitting?
- is the whole kit then subject to approval?
More generically, the first paragraph on New Page 2 states that "When installing a product which will carry or receive water from the public mains water supply in the UK, it is a criminal offence if it does not comply with the Water Supply (Water Fittings) Regulations or Scottish Byelaws." Yet, though I've only been a plumber a short while (as you know from the stupid questions I post) I haven't really seen many existing installations which correspond to what I was tought is "the correct way".
The company and I want to do things right, but there's no way they'll want to spend a fortune and a half going through an approval process which may not in the end be indispensable...
What are your thoughts?
In a nod back to my previous life as an office bod, I am working with a company looking at bringing a new product to the UK market. They have been trading for 3 years or so in France.
Basically, the kits they sell are made on the one hand of off-the-shelf components (made by companies like Roca, SAS, Geberit and Fluidmaster), with a special resin basin which they manufacture themselves. I haven't yet checked, but I'm darn confident that those components from external suppliers will be compliant/approved.
My question is this:
- is the basin likely to require WRAS approval as well? Is a basin even considered a fitting?
- is the whole kit then subject to approval?
More generically, the first paragraph on New Page 2 states that "When installing a product which will carry or receive water from the public mains water supply in the UK, it is a criminal offence if it does not comply with the Water Supply (Water Fittings) Regulations or Scottish Byelaws." Yet, though I've only been a plumber a short while (as you know from the stupid questions I post) I haven't really seen many existing installations which correspond to what I was tought is "the correct way".
The company and I want to do things right, but there's no way they'll want to spend a fortune and a half going through an approval process which may not in the end be indispensable...
What are your thoughts?
