Retired electrician - can he do DIY?

thescouselander

When we moved just over a year ago our solicitor never bothered chasing certificates for windows or electrical work or anything else. Likewise our buyers never asked us for any type of certification.

I guess there is always a risk that lack of certificates could be a problem but I've never heard of this being an issue myself.

baldelectrician

He should have the shower installed according to the manufacturers instructions

I prefer Triton showers and these ( like all electric showers now) will require RCD and MCB protection.

I would suggest you have him look at the instructions for the shower he hopes to buy - they can be downloaded from the manufacturers website before you buy a shower.

I would suggest an RCD ( used to be called an ELCB in past times) is essential now and will make things safer. It is also part of the regs since 2008

Scrounger

Skibunny40 wrote: »

His shower no longer works but to get a new one would require new electrical wiring.

Another option would be to go for a lower power shower which would run on the existing wiring (eg Triton Seville 7.5kW).

[I have this shower and it works fine on a 30A mcb via 6mm t+e cable. :eek:]

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macman

Yorkie1 wrote: »

This is potentially slightly misleading in the following respect:

The pre-contract enquiries ask whether any notifiable electrical work has been done within a given period. If the seller properly declares this, the buyer is likely to ask for evidence of building regs compliance. Hence some documentation, or indemnity insurance would be needed.

Agreed. But replacing a shower is not notifiable unless a new circuit is required. So the question can truthfully be answered with 'no'.

Yorkie1

macman wrote: »

Agreed. But replacing a shower is not notifiable unless a new circuit is required. So the question can truthfully be answered with 'no'.

Thanks for the further info, macman

jonesjw

This is a simple job and as long as his brain is not showing signs of ageing, let him get on with it. Don't even think of interfering.

no1catman

paddyrg wrote: »

Can he do the bulk of the work and get it tested/signed-off by a third party just to make sure it's 'up to regs', maybe making a point of 'for when we need to sell, the certificate will make £x,000 difference'

My later Father - a Motor Engineer, rewired the house himself. This is though going back several decades - converting the house from round-pin to square-pin.


He was guiding by an Electrical Engineer friend, who advised him what to do. I can even remember the grinder cutting a channel up the wall to put the cable in. I think at the time the usual thing was a 'ring' upstairs, one downstairs, and then one in the kitchen.
He thought, 'that's crazy' ours was one in the front (up & down) and one in the back, and the kitchen (+ a spur to the garage).
No problem.
Then years later he put the central heating system in - we never had any 'tradesmen' do any work - apart from some scaffolding to do the kitchen chimney - but that was from someone he 'knew'!