Buying IET Regulation books

[Iain Kay]

Hi all,

I was wondering if anybody knows how much a copy of the IET Wiring Regulations Amendment 3 or 18th edition should cost?

It looks like the RRP for 18th edition, paperback, is £95! Found a copy delivered for £81 on Amazon.

Is this really the case for an essential publication? Or should I be able to get a better deal?


I see that an alternative might be subscribing to the IET site for £160/year and getting access to a lot of the regulations. Seems steep, but may be the best direction if it's going to cost that for every 2 books.

 

[SparkyChick]

Yes it's really the case for an essential publication. Throw in the on site guide and as a minimum guidance note 3 and I'm sure you can see why we all complain... alot

 

[suffolkspark]

You can now grab ammendment 3 cheap on ebay, ive put mine on for £10 with osg need to get rid of gn3 aswell, might still be usefull and obv valiv until jan

 

[littlespark]

£95 ish at CEF for 18th and OSG. A professional needs this publication, and possibly several hundreds more for the course and exam.
If its just for general enquiries as an interested layman, take up the ebay offer on the previous edition

 

[snowhead]

The I.E.T like the British Standards and other similar publishers are very guarded about thier publications .
They all chase down and close down unauthorised copies online.
If you find it cheap it's either fake or won't be around long.

The link above appears to Amazon direct selling so Amazon must have done a deal with the I.E.T if not they won't be selling at that price for long.

As a side note, one review of the Regs on Amazon;

"Such a riveting read at bargain basement price. Once started could not put it down and read it in one sitting".

 

[littlespark]

If I keep my BBB pristine in its plastic wrapping, will it be worth more on ebay in a few years?

 

[Cadgey123]

The I.E.T like the British Standards and other similar publishers are very guarded about thier publications .
They all chase down and close down unauthorised copies online.
If you find it cheap it's either fake or won't be around long.

The link above appears to Amazon direct selling so Amazon must have done a deal with the I.E.T if not they won't be selling at that price for long.

As a side note, one review of the Regs on Amazon;

"Such a riveting read at bargain basement price. Once started could not put it down and read it in one sitting".

They obvsiously didn’t open it up and read it then haha!!

 

[Octopus]

Hi all,

I was wondering if anybody knows how much a copy of the IET Wiring Regulations Amendment 3

Obsolete at the end of 2018

or 18th edition should cost?

It looks like the RRP for 18th edition, paperback, is £95! Found a copy delivered for £81 on Amazon.

Is this really the case for an essential publication?

Essential publication for sparks and as they are revised, with multiple errors regularly we get VERY annoyed about the costs

There's more books than you think for BS 7671 - you need the OSG and where relevant the Guidance Notes

Or should I be able to get a better deal?


I see that an alternative might be subscribing to the IET site for £160/year and getting access to a lot of the regulations. Seems steep, but may be the best direction if it's going to cost that for every 2 books.

My responses above

 

[buzzlightyear]

the I.e.t. charge to much for the cxxp they put in .charge £50 bbb .every body happy .

 

[Deleted member 26818]

I seem to remember BS7671 being cheaper than other BSI standards.
Don’t think joining the IET for the discount, is cost effective.

 

[AJshep]

Anyone know how much discount you get on publications if you join the IET ?

I know if you have the relevant qualification you can use their designatory letters after your name, and they offer discount on some insurances ( like everyone else) but its hard to find how much discount members actually get.

 

[Rosco]

I ordered mine from here Wiring Regulations & Guidance Notes for Electricians - Wiring Regs - https://www.wiringregulations.net/ BBB, GN3 and OSG £140 including delivery charge. I tried to see if my go-to wholesaler could do better but the best they could do was £165.
The price is aggravating though knowing that they are probably already drafting amendments to bring out in the near future to part us from more cash!!!

 

[SJD]

What I find particularly appalling is books this expensive having errors.

For example in the OSG p45, the cross reference 537.6 should read 532.6, was one I noticed yesterday.

 

[Wilko]

What I find particularly appalling is books this expensive having errors.

For example in the OSG p45, the cross reference 537.6 should read 532.6, was one I noticed yesterday.

Well spotted ! There is no 537.6
BBB not much better, there's minor errors like afbeklauder of the abbreviations and symbols. My favourite (I know I'm weird) being Cos ø is after the Z entries.

 

[telectrix]

but as long as we keep buying them, they'll churn them out by the bucket load. supply and demand. if we all refused to buy, that would put a kink in their shiny-arsed trousers.

 

[snowhead]

but as long as we keep having to buy them,

I've corrected that for you

 

[Joshua]

Anyone know how much discount you get on publications if you join the IET ?

I know if you have the relevant qualification you can use their designatory letters after your name, and they offer discount on some insurances ( like everyone else) but its hard to find how much discount members actually get.

It's 35% off, I only paid £61 for the regs but it's not worth the £160 a year

And as for the letters after your name, who pays attention to those? Nobody once asked me how I got them or what they meant. I've now ditched the letters and replaced them with letters standing for Consumer Unit Neutral Terminal, the new letters more accurately represent what everyone else thought when I used letters after my name before.

 

[Joshua]

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[telectrix]

It's 35% off, I only paid £61 for the regs but it's not worth the £160 a year

And as for the letters after your name, who pays attention to those? Nobody once asked me how I got them or what they meant. I've now ditched the letters and replaced them with letters standing for Consumer Unit Neutral Terminal, the new letters more accurately represent what everyone else thought when I used letters after my name before.

the letters aftermy name stand for "Terminations Warrant Attention (to) Tightness.

 

[Iain Kay]

So it's a ---- up between paying top dollar for the books, which I'll need to complete training, or subscribing £160/year for access to most of them and getting any revisions included.

It looks like a deal for the three most necessary ones will come in at around £135 on Amazon just now and that should be good for 3 years, seems that's the way to go rather than subscribing digitally at £160/year.

I did think of having a look for 'free' download pdf but thought it's not worth risking it if somebody has messed with the info.

Will suck it up and pay.

 

[KentSparky]

I ordered mine from here Wiring Regulations & Guidance Notes for Electricians - Wiring Regs - https://www.wiringregulations.net/ BBB, GN3 and OSG £140 including delivery charge. I tried to see if my go-to wholesaler could do better but the best they could do was £165.
The price is aggravating though knowing that they are probably already drafting amendments to bring out in the near future to part us from more cash!!!

They aren't drafting the future amendments they have already got them waiting for another milking of their cash cow.

 

[Daveash123]

I got BS 7671, on site guide and guidance note 3 from NAPIT for £128.00 with free delivery

 

[oracle]

When I bought the Regs for another country they were £50 for a ring bound copy and you got all updates and amendments free You were responsible for keeping it up to date by contacting the government printer regularly to get the amendments and insert them into your file

 

[Pete999]

When I bought the Regs for another country they were £50 for a ring bound copy and you got all updates and amendments free You were responsible for keeping it up to date by contacting the government printer regularly to get the amendments and insert them into your file

Bluudy good idea, for the cost of this publication it would make sense and be cost effective for the buying electricians, updates would cost but no where near as much as buying new books every so often. It would increase the pride in the document, people would be glad to keep it updated for a mere fraction of the cost of buying new books etc, the IET need to listen to the people they cater for, and not how many pound notes they can stuff into their coffers, in short the IET need modernising, all these new publications every 6 months or so, the courses are a joke, as are the exams, when most of us know it's only an exercise in navigating a BS, glad I have no need to update, although I probably will, just to keep up with you lot.

 

[oracle]

Bluudy good idea, for the cost of this publication it would make sense and be cost effective for the buying electricians, updates would cost but no where near as much as buying new books every so often. It would increase the pride in the document, people would be glad to keep it updated for a mere fraction of the cost of buying new books etc, the IET need to listen to the people they cater for, and not how many pound notes they can stuff into their coffers, in short the IET need modernising, all these new publications every 6 months or so, the courses are a joke, as are the exams, when most of us know it's only an exercise in navigating a BS, glad I have no need to update, although I probably will, just to keep up with you lot.

 

[oracle]

When I migrated from the 15th Edition my 16th (blue) edition was ring bound file and the updates were free to download and insert, so City and Guilds have done it before, but not since

 

[oracle]

They say it has to be updated is because of new technology. Why can't we just stick with standards installation rules and get the updates free from the manufacture of the new technology

 

[Pete999]

When I bought the Regs for another country they were £50 for a ring bound copy and you got all updates and amendments free You were responsible for keeping it up to date by contacting the government printer regularly to get the amendments and insert them into your file

All in it together Mate, make as much dosh as you can and bugger the working classes.