I can wire a plug.
No opportunities to practice that lost art, any more, and it may well be illegal. I can put up light fittings, too, which my wife insists should only be done by a qualified electrician.

Health and safety gone made, if you ask me. Plumbing is much trickier.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 19:23, 7 replies)

How can wiring a plug be illegal or obsolete?

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 19:30, closed)

Everyone knows this don't they?
"All new electrical work within a domestic setting must comply with Part P of the Building Regulations in England and Wales introduced on 1 January 2005, which are legally enforceable. One way of achieving this is to apply British Standard BS7671...Although it must be stated that the British Standard BS 7671 (the "Wiring Regulations") are not statutory thus someone doing electrical work is allowed to deviate from the wiring regulations to some degree but it is generally accepted that it is best to follow the wiring regulations to the highest standard possible.

Some of the restrictions introduced with Part P were controversial, especially the rules surrounding work carried out by unregistered people such as DIYers. Under the new regulations, commencement of any work other than simple changes becomes notifiable to the local building control authority; "other than simple" in this context means any work in a kitchen or bathroom other than like-for-like replacement."
( spitsticker is not working on, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 20:45, closed)

I'm worried that I might have to pay you as a lawyer, for that answer.
Also, everything has moulded plugs, nowadays.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 22:00, closed)

Oh god
I bet you've got a beard and a drive a Saab.
( Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard., Fri 1 Jul 2011, 22:44, closed)

OK. So what you are saying is that you are massively dull and your mother is a munter.
But what does that have to do with wiring a fucking plug, you dreary sack of fucking tediousness?
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Sat 2 Jul 2011, 9:15, closed)

Having previously worked in a domestic electrical capacity...
...I can only say that Part P is a good thing.
Some of the things i've seen. Stuff even my dad, who had 40 years of experience as an electrical engineer, was left baffled by.

I'll always remember the time we were called out to an emergency electrical breakdown, a place we had been some weeks before and notified the owner that his consumer unit needed updating (to which he scoffed). He had ignored our advice and quote and had basically wired every circuit in the house in to a massive junction box. There were no MCB's or RCD's in sight. He denied doing it himself (quite obviously a lie) because it would have invalidated his emergecy callout insurance.

Aside from the fact the he'd blown his 100Amp main fuse, which was SWALEC's responsibility to replace, he'd most likely caused irreparable damage to most of the circuits, switches and sockets in the house. So we left him in the dark and turned down an increasingly large sum of money he was desperately offering to us to fix it. My father was of the opinion that the job would be more trouble than it was worth. Plus he didn't enjoy his profession being insulted by a person capable of acts of such monumental ignorance.

Hopefully that taught him not to play silly buggers with things he didn't understand.
(Megamoss, Sat 2 Jul 2011, 2:31, closed)

SOMEBODY STOP THE DULLNESS

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Sat 2 Jul 2011, 9:16, closed)