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Range Rover Blues:
But my house never ran anyone down because the wiring wasn't up to scratch!
It's MY home and MY choice to work on it myself, if a job's worth doing it's worth doing yourself, no-one else gives enough of a damn about it for me to want to pay them. When I sell my house it's the buyers responsibility to satisfy themselves the wiring is sound and they can ask for a survey. Julies parents recently had to do this as they have just sold up and emigrated. The survey, BTW, was just about worth the paper it was written on.
As for the 16th edition IEE regs, have to get the books back out for that one. As part of studying for my degree I had to also do a module in electrical engineering.
Thing is, for DIY you don't need to be that well qualified, the labling tells you what the cable should be used for, the packaging tells you what supply that shower needs....
....oh, hang on, we're not to be trusted to read the packaging though, are we?
muddysteve:
--- Quote ---Thing is, for DIY you don't need to be that well qualified, the labling tells you what the cable should be used for, the packaging tells you what supply that shower needs....
--- End quote ---
yes but the pakaging only tells you for a typical installation, it doesn't take into account how far your bathroom is form your dis board and whether the rcd (which you have to have on a shower) is going to trip when it needs to. you need a pretty expensive piece of kit to do that! i've been to a house that nearly burnt to the ground due to a faulty emersion heater. it was fused and wired correctly, the house was protected by an rcd but nothing tripped and it just got hotter and hotter untill the airing cupboard was ablaze. it turns out that the main earth to the house had been disturbed by a gardener which meant all the protection in the house was useless.
Just goes to show how easy things can go wrong with electrics and be no fault of the person living in the house or his wife/kids etc
Steve
(Electrical Engineer) :twisted:
Bob696:
--- Quote --- ...... installation practices can affect the capability of the components.... does this make them stupid ?
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No it dosnt but thinking they can do it without proper reseach and knowledge does make them stupid. If I dont know how to do something (and can't find out) I will get someone in who does. Unlike the people who think up this crap I dont have loads of money to burn.
The MOT is a different kettle of fish. It is designed to protect other road users from idiots, even so, imagine the nightmare if everytime you changed brakepads you had to go and get a new MOT. This new crap is designed to protect you from yourself NOT to protect the general public from you.
muddyweb:
I'm going to duck out of this before it gets any more heated. I am not a currently qualified eletrical engineer, but I do (did) hold electrical qualifications and spent many years designing lighting systems for commercial and entertainment venues.
I welcome this particular bit of legislation.
Bob696:
well things arnt all bad .... we can still eat peanuts :P
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