malcolm
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(Part P is some UK bureaucracy introduced at the start of 2006).
There are a few websites covering this, but they don't seem clear. My understanding is that it is allowable to do simple home electrics on a DIY basis (such as changing a socket) but those electrics then have to be inspected by an electrician, who would presumably charge the same for inspecting as for doing the work. Is that really the case? I've noticed they changed the wire colours at the same time as the regs were introduced so they can tell!
Smacks of legislating for a route to an aim rather than for the aim itself - why on earth they couldn't just legislate that all installations have to comply with IEE regs I don't know.
Second question - are we free to do whatever we want on the other side of the electric socket - for example if I don't have enough sockets for the MIG and the TIG then would there any actual laws against running both off one of those 3 way adapters that you can stick into a single socket? It's massively higher risk than fitting a second socket, but out of interest I wondered if it would be legal?
And a 3rd - Are we allowed to dabble in the nice blue sockets any more? That would be the most sensible way of wiring the welders up, and it might still turn out that I was lucky enough to have installed some before the start of this year.
There are a few websites covering this, but they don't seem clear. My understanding is that it is allowable to do simple home electrics on a DIY basis (such as changing a socket) but those electrics then have to be inspected by an electrician, who would presumably charge the same for inspecting as for doing the work. Is that really the case? I've noticed they changed the wire colours at the same time as the regs were introduced so they can tell!
Smacks of legislating for a route to an aim rather than for the aim itself - why on earth they couldn't just legislate that all installations have to comply with IEE regs I don't know.
Second question - are we free to do whatever we want on the other side of the electric socket - for example if I don't have enough sockets for the MIG and the TIG then would there any actual laws against running both off one of those 3 way adapters that you can stick into a single socket? It's massively higher risk than fitting a second socket, but out of interest I wondered if it would be legal?
And a 3rd - Are we allowed to dabble in the nice blue sockets any more? That would be the most sensible way of wiring the welders up, and it might still turn out that I was lucky enough to have installed some before the start of this year.