Read the wiki to see what he's talking about,
No thanks, at my age I leave household jobs to my kids and I don't interfere.
I come on here for advice not a lecture.
Read the wiki to see what he's talking about,
Read the wiki to see what he's talking about,
No thanks, at my age I leave household jobs to my kids and I don't interfere.
I come on here for advice not a lecture.
One of the reasons I put the question up, was because a year or two back, EU/local councils/Health & Safety Exec., deemed it unsafe/illegal for a householder to fit plugs to electric appliances
Thanks EngStudent. It sounds like advice when explained in that manner.
I don't remember that - got any details?This was not helped by some MP's family fitting a towel rail without checking for concealed cables first, then ignoring shocks from the towel rail, until someone died.
Oh - you mean the one that did not involve a towel rail, did not involve people ignoring shocks, did not involve drilling into cables that were where they should be and did not have any bearing on the decision to introduce Part P (because the decision had already been made)?
Why do you think that Part P classes kitchens along with bathrooms even though the Wiring Regulations don't?
Yes I wondered that so I asked someone that was involved. You are right to assert that they wanted to encompass kitchen fitters, etc. However, the kitchen was apparently a last minute inclusion because the fledgling scheme providers (FSPs) had forgotten it .
The story goes something like - FSPs to JP (John Prescott) - "Here John we forgot kitchens and we need to include them so that we can control the kitchen fitters". JP - (irritated because this is yet another last minute modification) "alright kitchens are in, but that is the last change."
Sometime later the FSPs realise that they have also forgotten utility rooms, and that these are very like kitchens. "Here John what about utility rooms." JP - "have you seen my big clunking fist"
I did ask what attribute of a kitchen separated it from a utility room - the answer being that food is prepared in a kitchen . This opens up all sorts of possible loop holes
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