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, 1 reply)

SOMEBODY STOP THE DULLNESS

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