any signs detailing requirements for notification under Part P? Maybe worth a chat with the depot manager if not.
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oldtimer
I wonder if the have good Professional Indemnity insurance plus this is a classic example of the sheds saying yes you can fit a fuseboard and here is "Willie" who is 75 and a retired civil servant and he has been on a 5 minute course on how to fit a new consumer and he is here to a special advisor to show you how to do it.
Jings you could not make this up could you.
Jings you could not make this up could you.
There may be a legal case here for anyone willing to take up the reigns. I was thinking along oldtimer's post really with regards to indemnity. Maybe a word in the manager's ear about notification and liability would see the removal of this display, or an adaptation of it to include advice about the dangers of self installation, the requirements for testing, and notification, and maybe some cards of local registered electricians who could safely install the goods bought at the sheds.
a little tip for anyone struggling for work. Go and hang out at B and Q. I think I've potentially picked up a job every time I've been there.
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oldtimer
Your not that guy they are talking about lurking in the electrical section with Professional Electrician along with a Schemie Badge on your T shirt ?
Anyway lets get serious because our trade is officialy a joke how come Customer dont tell me this is a highly skilled proffesion I can go down to the big orange shed and buy a consumer unit for £80 . Plus the nice old pensioner on speed is "happy to serve" will give me all the coaching I need.
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D80
What angle to you go in with, B&Q have "You can do it when you B&Q it", do you have something like "I can fix it when you have B&Q'ed it"
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GLENNSPARK
but its up to folk what they do in their own homes/property......the problem i have is when you get incompetents charging for services rendered....chances are that when a DIY attempt at install goes wrong....a proffesional is called in anyway....its all about free trade and free trade must be allowed to continue...unhindered.....otherwise we really have lost it......we are subjected to too much state interference as it is.....should it go like america?....where you aint allowed to do anything to your OWN property?.....is that what you want here..?....
no, mate, I was in there twice last week, an old lady looking in the wrong isle for an rcd adapter. i pointed her in the right direction, but there were only black ones, she wanted wanted a white one. i'm fairly sure I could have sold her an rcd socket (fitted) rather than an adaptor. Another guy was struggling with some plasterboard on the way out, I offered to help him, and we got chatting. turns out he was doing a house refurb and I went around for a look. His sparky was not around for a couple of days and he needed some wiring re-routed. In the end i declined as didn't want to step on someone else's toes.
But it got me thinkings.
Two quick visits, two potential jobs....
If I'm ever quiet, I'll be hanging around the aisles, offering my 'advice', ie, why don't I come over and take a look at that for you?
But it got me thinkings.
Two quick visits, two potential jobs....
If I'm ever quiet, I'll be hanging around the aisles, offering my 'advice', ie, why don't I come over and take a look at that for you?
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alarm man
well technically we have,im not part p so i cant do electrical work in my own house..but some Electrical Trainee can..i do and they wont but we have that situation now..
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GLENNSPARK
and why cant you do electrical work within your own home/house?....and even if you aint part urine registered.....a lot of work aint even notifyable anyway....
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alarm man
if i did any notifiable work you need part p,like changing a cu which ive done,id like to think im competent but in theory im breaching a building reg am i not? i dont do domestic so im not paying anything just to work in my own house..
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D80
I don't have to deal with Part P here in NI...I was under the impression its a legal requirement to have works that are notifiable notified, and it would be possible that problems could arise potentially if/when you come to sell your home. I doubt it will be but some mortgage lenders are after Periodic Inspections now before lending the money.
And you have your 3,000th post coming up, nice going!
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GLENNSPARK
well this is the issue with proper competent persons in every sense of the word..playing second fiddle to a 5 week wonder....just because he/she has dumped some cash in the direction of a scheme provider.....but arn`t even competent to wire a plugtop up right...and it stinks really....
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GLENNSPARK
we were at a house yesterday afternoon.....just round the corner from paulm.....had to redo a couple of plugtops that someone had `wired`..lol....ask paul...he took a pic of one of em before i made it off again...
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GLENNSPARK
LOL.....well thet wernt good i can assure you...honestly...i dont know how they do it.....its like you can see the effort that went into doing em badly.....
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trev
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