it is amazing how far you can get with replacing an outside light, up a metal ladder against a tree before finding that the cable is in fact live!
Five yards?
if u have the mcb in board and its on the same floor and he picks up on it educate him they dont know it all and will bluff there way out of itThat's handy as I've forgotten to fit one on the utility room fan and the building inspector still needs to sign the house off!
cough when you ring him up and he deffo wontTo be honest he signed off the drainage and soak away from photos before all this C O R O N A ballcocks so I doubt he'll want to come over for a couple of extractor fans.
For machinery, EN 60204-1:2018 section 5.3.3 shows the requirements. There is no set distance as others have said, it just needs to be clearly identified.
cant see all that bumph but generaly all isolators on machinery want to be within 1 meter. aircon and roof fans and motors operated in a building and gear elswhere need rotary isolators next to them and can be locked off its good practice even if its not in the rules