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They should rename the book "You can do it, but its probably not legal", don't know how they can get away with it tbh.
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but the right to sell certainly IS about free trade.....and it was this that i was gettin at.....i think many in here know what i think about 5 week wonders.....What's it got to do with free trade? Unless letting a builder masquerade as a spark is part of free trade.
I can't get a job as a solicitor cause, well I ain't a solicitor. That's nowt to do with free trade, its about being bloody qualified in your industry.
If anything Part Pee is an infraction on free trade! Only in Part Pee is a 5 week wonder deemed competent whereas a time served long serving commercial / industrial spark deemed not so!
How much longer are Builder and DIY'ers going to carry on 'de-valuing' our trade. It seems the more i read on here and the more i see out on site DIY electrics are getting more and more common. It winds me up that we go to college for 3/4 Years to get a qualification that enables us to work safely yet every Tom Dick and Harry can go into B&Q/Screwfix etc buy some cable and sockets, have a quick look at a diagram B&Q have kindly put up for them and then go home and bodge their electrics. The Gas lads seem to be starting to get it sorted but we haven't. Personally the only way i think this will stop is to give every qualified electrician a card similar to the Gas Safe card and make it law that electrical items can only be sold to people who hold this card. Am i on my own or do others feel the same? Sorry to rant but it makes my blood boil.
personally ide make it that if you wanted to do anythink electrical or gas inside your house you would have to tell council and building officer about it no matter what,then give them the name of person or company doing the task ,they have to provide proof that they can do such task and provide test cert at the end of the job,,,all at home owners cost,,,if you dont want to pay then the work dont get done, all houses should be tested by law every two years and insurance company gets proof of this getting done, if you dont have it tested then u have no insurance cover,,,if i want to be a doctor ide have to get trained , if i want to fly jets for virgin ide need to get trained , if you want to mess with gas or electric u have to be trained to do so or pay someone that is,,,,yep i paint and decorate my own house and dont need or have to get a trained painter in because it aint going to blow up or kill anyone even if me colours bash,,,
personally ide make it that if you wanted to do anythink electrical or gas inside your house you would have to tell council and building officer about it no matter what,then give them the name of person or company doing the task ,they have to provide proof that they can do such task and provide test cert at the end of the job,,,all at home owners cost,,,if you dont want to pay then the work dont get done, all houses should be tested by law every two years and insurance company gets proof of this getting done, if you dont have it tested then u have no insurance cover,,,if i want to be a doctor ide have to get trained , if i want to fly jets for virgin ide need to get trained , if you want to mess with gas or electric u have to be trained to do so or pay someone that is,,,,yep i paint and decorate my own house and dont need or have to get a trained painter in because it aint going to blow up or kill anyone even if me colours bash,,,
I wondered who would be the first to say that.Nothing like a spot of deceased equine flogging!
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I have seen some awful work by DIYers, but it's no worse than the awful work I have seen carried out by time served qualified electricians. It's the way the world is.
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