Date   : Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:37:12 -0700 (PDT)
From   : debounce@... (Greg Cook)
Subject: Leccy @ Acorn World '09

On Sun, 6/9/09, Jonathan Graham Harston <jgh@...> wrote:

> > > Legal: I wonder what the legal situation is if
> you, an unlicenced and
>  
> wossa "unlicensed" electrician? is this some French thing? In the
> UK anybody allowed do electrical work, in the same way that anybody
> is allowed to mow a lawn or wash a car. You're just bound by
> standard contractual competancy and liability laws.

You also need the work inspected, since 2005, though at the time the
news made the new regulations sound like a ban:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/gloucestershire/4023907.stm

No outright horror stories to share here.  The house still has a four way
fuse box; just about everything is on the 30A fuse and it's only blown
twice in twenty years.  We'd have a modern CU but the meter is on such a
massive board there's not much wall space left in the cupboard-under-
the-stairs.

Greg Cook
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