Electrical Installations

haverhillhammer

That is very interesting.Thanks for posting it

kingkano

Happy to stand corrected.

real1314

The Wickes leaflet agrees that the OP is ok.

"You do not need to tell your local authority’s Building Control Department about:

• repairs, replacements and maintenance work; or

• extra power points or lighting points or other alterations to existing circuits (except in a kitchen or bathroom, or outdoors).

You need to tell them about most other work. If you are not sure about
this, or you have any questions, ask your local authority’s Building Control
Department."

The OPs work falls in the first category - repairs, replacements, maintenance.

Kitchen and Bathroom work that involves extra power points or lighting points, etc has to be notified, in other locations it does not.

scorpio_princess

After seeing the state of the electrics in my sister's new house she completed on last week, I can see why there are so many restrictions!

The vendor basically did the kitchen himself, but didn't have a clue about the important things, like electrics - so he completely bodged it. I suppose they make it all look so easy on those property !!!!!! programmes... :rolleyes:
To cut a long story short, it was so unsafe we could have been electrocuted at the flick of a switch :eek: And the guy had kids in that house - unbelieveable. Why is it everyone think they're experts at everything these days? People, KNOW YOUR LIMITS!!!!

real1314

Whilt that's a fair point to some degree, you could just as easily be killed by a kitchen unit falling off the wall.
Should we regulate fixing things to walls?

There's no way of fitting a microswitch/rcd to a wallplug (of the non-electrical variety)

scorpio_princess

real1314 wrote: »

Whilt that's a fair point to some degree, you could just as easily be killed by a kitchen unit falling off the wall.
Should we regulate fixing things to walls?

There's no way of fitting a microswitch/rcd to a wallplug (of the non-electrical variety)

I'm not an electrician so I don't really know about these things - just saying that the guy's bodging could have resulted in something rather nasty (ok, maybe not 'at the flick of a switch' - I just said that because I couldn't remember what my sister's sparky mate said, only that it was dangerous)

I don't think badly-fitted cupboards quite come under the same scope as dodgy electrics somehow

olly300

real1314 wrote: »

Whilt that's a fair point to some degree, you could just as easily be killed by a kitchen unit falling off the wall.
Should we regulate fixing things to walls?

There's no way of fitting a microswitch/rcd to a wallplug (of the non-electrical variety)

I think the government excuse is that faulty and badly fitted electrics cause fires that can affect more than one person i.e. everyone who lives in the house and the next door neighbours. There as a cupboard falling of the wall in theory is likely to affect one person i.e. the person opening or under the cupboard.

However the regulations cannot regulate against faulty appliances. I know 2 people who have had tumble dryer fires.

Happy to stand corrected about the original post.