WTF? Home electrics.

Until the 1st Jan 2005

http://www.odpm.gov.uk/pns/DisplayPN.cgi?pn_id=2004_0148

I can't find the original site for the NECIEC which explains it all

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Mark
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Mark Derbyshire emerged from their own little world to say

that's because it's NICEIC
http://www.niceic.org.uk/partp/building_regs.html

More nanny state bollocks and racketeering opportunities for tradesmen with
mickey mouse certificates.

 

That's the one, fucking acronyms I hate them ;0)

And bollocks if I[1] am going to pay some numpty to install a few socket in
my house


[1] Qualified but not registered electritian
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Mark
ZX12R-B1 (Blue)
CG125 (hers)
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10 people die every year? So the other 57-odd million survive? Why do they
want to dick around with what's clearly an astoundingly successful formula?
If you want to make "homes" safer, outlaw stairs.

Sarah mentioned something today that this reminds me of: in the wimmens bogs
at motorway services, there's a poster campaign for some sort of personal
injury insurance, which is touting the scary statistic that, every year,
several hundred people are injured by their underwear...

 

"platypus" <> came forth with the following in
uk.rec.motorcycles

I could believe that - getting suffocated by your missus underware :0)

Or was that a dream
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Mark
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platypus emerged from their own little world to say

snip nanny state/DIY sparking

Heh.

"Mothers, don't let your children be traumatised by an embarrasing wedgie
related skid mark? We will provide counselling for the whole family...."

 

And if one flips in the middle of the night when you're on your own
and have no idea what that strange noise was and you go downstairs in
trepidation and then flick the light switch and it doesn't work they
don't half scare you. 2am phone call to a mate that one. 'I heard a
noise and now the lights wont work'. 'It's the fuse box you silly
bint'.

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the

4" nail. Ykims.

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**** this fucking about with fucking half measures. Use a fucking 1/4
bolt, you fucking gurls.

 

Outside the scope of the legislation. If we're going to drift into fantasy,
how about outlawing Yanks?

 

I haven't read all of it but surely it only applies if you are selling
your services to a third party, not doing it for yourself.

 

Mick Whittingham emerged from their own little world to say

If you had read it, you would have refrained from making an incorrect
assumption. E.g. if you build an extension to your house the wiring will
come under the Building Regs so you will either need it signed off by an
approved contractor or certified by the Local Council inspectorate.

"Minor works" such as replacing a wall socket will not come under the
scheme.

 

My comment was in the thread that responded to Mark's comment:

]]That's the one, fucking acronyms I hate them ;0)
]]And bollocks if I[1] am going to pay some numpty to install a few
]]socket in my house


]][1] Qualified but not registered electritian

As for your reference, you do not necessarily need an approved
contractor for work done by yourself if you are doing a self build. The
building does need to be signed of by the local councils inspectorate
but they can accept your own installation of electric's, gas, water,
sewage if you have complied with the regs. This includes things that
would normally require a "qualification" from an approved agreement
board.

 

In my case I was required to meet building regs and standards and the
inspection was by the Council guy[1] during the build who signed the
building off with the architect who I got to draw up my original
design[2].

Wavers were obtained on "everything" from the council guy as long as I
could prove why I should do it "my way".

[1] A very thorough Engineer who was very likeable. He paid me the
greatest complement by using my building as the basis of his thesis to
obtain his Fellowship of his institution. "Innovative design for the
future." Or so I was told by one of the students he brought back to my
house some years after it was completed. I assume he went into teaching.

[2] Obtaining planing permission is helped by having a set of drawings
from a chartered architect.