Date   : Wed, 02 Sep 2009 01:43:36 +0100
From   : robert@... (Rob)
Subject: Leccy @ Acorn World '09

On 02/09/2009, David Hunt <dm.hunt@...> wrote:
> Probably best to ask a
> friendly electrician, especially now they've actually got to be qualified.

ROFLMAO... Qualified??!

We had some sparkies in last year doing some new sockets in the
kitchen.  I'd have done them myself, but am not Part P registered.
They were.  It still took them best part of a day to discover they'd
wired a fused spur up so that it switched the ring-main rather than
switching the spur.  Of course part of that was spent trying to find
out why their meter registered a dead short across L and N (um, half a
houseful of kit plugged into it!!) and then wondering why they started
off with continuity around the ring, then lost it again (uh, because
they broke it on the first test, then didn't connect it back up again
before trying again elsewhere, and totally ignored me when I tried to
tell them.)

They left the place a total mess, and they broke the baby gate going
in and out, which cost us an extra ?25 to replace.

Next time I'll just do it myself.