Part P consultation

malc_b

Keystone it might be helpful it you read what I posted rather than replying to what you think I said. I said meter (digital of course), not a neon screwdriver and not a neon plug in thing. There is a meter on maplin at the moment for 7.99. It doesn't have traceable calibration but why would the DIYer need that. Testing measurement do not need to be that accurate.

And if you read the part P consultation document you'll see that one of the changes is to bring the specified wiring regs, currently 2001, up to date to the latest, 2008 (17th). Currently we should all be using the 17th which mean not following part P.

I'll agree part P talks about special locations but these are primarily kitchens and bathrooms and that's the most likely place DIY work will be affected. OK, outdoors is also a special location but mostly you use low voltage for that.

What is wrong with the suggestion of promoting 30mA RCD consumer units. 17th edition says much the same. And by RCD I'm also including RCBO which are a lot better since they avoid the problem of tripping everything and cumulative leakage tripping.

As to the assumption that all DIYers are useless I would point out that the people that actually write the IEE (IET as is now) wiring regs are not part P registered so when they do the own wiring they are DIYers. Are they then experts to wiring the standard by incompetent to do their own wiring? Some DIYers have quite techical jobs and are more than capable of following the wiring regs.