It's much easier to prove your installation is safe if you have worked to an approved standard, rather than picking and choosing bits you want to comply with to make your job easier.
It's much easier to prove your installation is safe if you have worked to an approved standard
It may possibly be the case that sockets upstairs wired to the 16th may not have RCD protection
Non notifiable work but still needs MWC (Appendix 6 BS7671:2008.)
non-notifiable work if undertaken as DIy work, compliance with Part P is required. A way of showing compliance would be to follow the IEE guidance and to have an electrician inspect and test the work and supply a MWC.
You are only required to comply with the building regulations which includes Part P.
You might not like it, I might have sympathy with your argument, but you are wrong because the law says you are.
The result of requiring a "100% or it's no good at all" approach to BS 7671 is that nobody can do anything if they are not able to test to Part 6...It's much easier to prove your installation is safe if you have worked to an approved standard, rather than picking and choosing bits you want to comply with to make your job easier.
The problem is as I understand it if you want the completion certificate you either have to do what BC wants or take them to court and try and get the court to force them to issue it.
Corollary: In what way is it not reasonable to work to the current version of the standard?It's much easier to prove your installation is safe if you have worked to an approved standard
Such as BS7671:2001, which was current little more than a year ago? I think you'd have a hard time convincing the average person that something which was considered perfectly acceptable 14 months ago has now suddenly become unsafe just because the standard has been revised.
All those who, in a buyer's market, want to sell their house to someone who demands proof that work complied with the Building Regulations?How many people carrying out work (notifiable) on their own homes actually need a completion certificate?
Far more significantly the proposal was also to change the starting time of the period from commission of the offence to when the offence was first detected. I too don't know what happened .Building Regs. have a relatively short enforcement period - 6 months, although I know a few years ago there was a proposal to extend that to 2 years.
Or you might lose your buyer, and your chain might collapse, and the costs and hassles of all that might lead you to kick yourself for not behaving lawfully in the first place.In the case of electrical works, all that might end up happening is that you get a PIR carried out prior to the sale.
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