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Re: Extension leads, external wiring, Part P etc.

On Nov 7, 11:11 am, "The Medway Handyman"
<davidl...@nospamblueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> I find a lot of people are vaugely aware that 'the law has changed', but
> thats it, they don't know about Part P.

Does not help when everyone and their dog says "you are not allowed to
do that / anything anymore / law is SI2004". SI2004 was a disgrace in
that it gave a ridiculous gold plated screwdriver to fitters over
engineers, pure 1970s "we will strike if he picks up my screwdriver or
he picks up my spanner". In the NW the BNP-Fitters-Guild is mostly out
of control and they wonder why so many companies keep blacklists
(which makes things worse because they just go into domestic electric
& gas and milk the few customers they can get as they can until their
name/business collapses). Britain went back 30yrs.

Nothing to do with safety, portable/plug-in appliances are still a
significant problem over fixed wiring.

Had safety been the real driver it could have been made very simple
indeed:
1 - Capped fee of £50
2 - Gardens - check & test RCD protection, earthing suitable re export/
rod, cable type & sizing correct. 10mins.
3 - MEB & Supp - correct re ESQW. 5mins.
4 - Any new f.c. RCD protected - test of RCD performance. 10mins.
5 - Any generator system - correct re ESQW. 20mins.
6 - BS7671 required by all, no body-made-up-named-by-us-standards

Best people to do it would be electrical companies - garden export of
earth, MEB & Supp is of direct importance to them re ESQW, generator
is of direct importance to them re ESQW; only extra bit is checking
RCD presence & operation on any new circuit. Keeping the electrical
contractor industry out of it - or directly competing with it to
enforce competition.

Gas could have been handled similar - anyone can do anything EXCEPT
connect up, undoing the meter connection requires reset by Transco and
easy to add GSM for leak/fault/tamper anyway. Connection requires £50
inspection by gas company. Ireland has no GasSafe and no statistically
significant difference in incidents compared to the UK.

The £50 inspection fixes nothing, just indicates what is wrong & must
be fixed before connection.
Instead we have £200+ fee which is better spent on better quality
components & using RCBO in place of RCD.

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