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Aye, after all it's Saturday night. Get yourself off to the pub where you can tell the landlord how to pull a pintAh well, we'll just agree to differ then
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Aye, after all it's Saturday night. Get yourself off to the pub where you can tell the landlord how to pull a pintAh well, we'll just agree to differ then
DIY gas work is not permitted. Electrical should be the same.
Everybody tries to do something they are not qualified to do. And I must admit I have tried just about everything. (gas included, but that was LPG, and on a barbeque)
Try to be a joiner, cut a bit of wood short, or offline, and the worse is it doesn't look good.
Try to be a decorator. Paint is a messy business. worst case is it doesn't look good.
Even a plumber. Do it wrong, and you can get a little wet.
Gas engineer. Have to be gassafe registered. have to be trained and qualified. Do that wrong and there could be an almighty bang one day
Electricians are well trained, even more so than gas engineers. There should be a register for all qualified sparks such as gassafe.
Get this wrong, and there could be a bang. or not. Electricity is silent. It sneaks up on you and grabs you from behind.
We are trained to do the work and TEST it afterwards, to ensure the end user will be safe. Some members on this forum can be quick to criticise DIY work, and perhaps rightly so. They have had years of coming across DIY bodge jobs and having to fix them.
I am sure the OP's friend has done the work to the best of his ability. However, without proper testing, it is nothing
Topical ... cutting corners is a gamble.I tried to be a rally driver once....that didn't end well
no I don't believe you at all ....This thread is posted by your alter ego before I banned it New Shower installation help - https://www.electriciansforums.co.uk/threads/new-shower-installation-help.124165/#post-1320222 I'd seriously consider giving up if I was you.At the end of the day, it's up to the individual. It's illegal to do gas work unless you are gas Safe or what ever they call it niw, but you can still buy all the gear and do it yourself, most people wouldn't. The same would apply to electrics. Can you think of a law that isn't broken, how many do you break? It doesn't matter to you other than financially. I will never accept that an amateur can't do as good a job as a professional, but of course not always, and believe it or not some even know how to test an installation, after all can't be that difficult, you lot do it!
Whilst I was going to comment regarding another member posting about another member burning to death due to their wiring which I thought was a despicable thing to post, I agree with the first part of your post but had to mark as dumb due to the total insult above.can't be that difficult, you lot do it!
The main areas of uncertainty were that I bought out of calibration test equipment and I had to make my own tests up to check them. Which was not possible for the rcd tester.
I do pay a highly recommended relative of a friend of a colleague to service the car.
So yes it's sometimes worth spending the weekend doing a service yourself to save 40 quid.
Ze tester was by comparison with the dno surveyor's one and the guys changing the cutout, that covered around 0.25 to 1.2 ohms range.Not sure what tests you could devise, to ensure its calibrated correctly, not withstanding
They actually use the word competent, so assuming your definition of competent is that nothing went wrong, then I agree.So if I or someone else decided to install, service or repair our own boiler, it would not be illegal unless something went wrong.
If something did go wrong, that would be a pretty clear indication of incompetence.They actually use the word competent, so assuming your definition of competent is that nothing went wrong, then I agree.
Correct, but your post suggested the opposite also applies, ie that if nothing goes wrong, that indicates competence. I am not sure that quite follows.If something did go wrong, that would be a pretty clear indication of incompetence.
I'm not disagreeing, but as a counter exampleexam sure we've all seen "accidents waiting to happen" that have been there many years and nothing went wrong, but had a few choice words to say about the incompetent/diyer who was responsible!I always though the meaning of competence was being able to do something successfully or efficiently?
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