lol, I certainly wouldnt want to throw my money away and go through all this hastle with the council if it wasnt necessary, thing is, alot of this stuff has been caused by people who attempt DIY electrics without any kind of knowledge.. it goes wrong, they burn their house down, injure themselves and end up in hospital or injure other people.. worst case scenario from an bad electrics would be death... so part p is the governments way of tightening up on safety.
I dont like part p at all, as im sure many dont eigther, but when like in my case I was in B&Q once, and overheard a member of their staff advising a customer that it was ok to protect ordinary flex cable underground in their garden with hosepipe! can you really blame the government? .. that is an accident waiting to happen and im sure it goes on several times a day all over the country, and in general I do believe.. its your house, and as long as what your doing is not going to injure yourself, or other people.. then you should be allowed to do what you want... councils and government seem to do whatever the heck they want regardless of what people think, if they want to build a road they dont even care if they own the land or not.. just issue a compulsory purchase.
But councils, and government, if they want to tighten up on regulations to improve safety.. they should make provisions to make it accessible for people who want to undertake DIY work, where homeowners can do work, and there is a simple, and standard procedure for carrying it out... at the moment the system is quite akward and complicated with lots of red tape... and even then it relies on the council playing ball and not being akward. Some people are finding it easy to go through building control, whereas others are having a really hard time getting it certified.
Thing is though, for those who dont follow the rules, what do you do when you sell the house? sometimes/always a PIR is now required.. and this would probably highlight any extensions or alterations because of the wiring colours being different (brown and blue).. so then next question would be wheres the certificates for the work? and if you cant produce them your in a stuck situation... if you admit to doing the work yourself then your implicating yourself as breaking the law... Suppose you coudl always argue somebody else you got in done it, and you wasnt aware of part p or where to contact them any more.. but it still doesnt solve the certificate situation lol
I dont like part p at all, as im sure many dont eigther, but when like in my case I was in B&Q once, and overheard a member of their staff advising a customer that it was ok to protect ordinary flex cable underground in their garden with hosepipe! can you really blame the government? .. that is an accident waiting to happen and im sure it goes on several times a day all over the country, and in general I do believe.. its your house, and as long as what your doing is not going to injure yourself, or other people.. then you should be allowed to do what you want... councils and government seem to do whatever the heck they want regardless of what people think, if they want to build a road they dont even care if they own the land or not.. just issue a compulsory purchase.
But councils, and government, if they want to tighten up on regulations to improve safety.. they should make provisions to make it accessible for people who want to undertake DIY work, where homeowners can do work, and there is a simple, and standard procedure for carrying it out... at the moment the system is quite akward and complicated with lots of red tape... and even then it relies on the council playing ball and not being akward. Some people are finding it easy to go through building control, whereas others are having a really hard time getting it certified.
Thing is though, for those who dont follow the rules, what do you do when you sell the house? sometimes/always a PIR is now required.. and this would probably highlight any extensions or alterations because of the wiring colours being different (brown and blue).. so then next question would be wheres the certificates for the work? and if you cant produce them your in a stuck situation... if you admit to doing the work yourself then your implicating yourself as breaking the law... Suppose you coudl always argue somebody else you got in done it, and you wasnt aware of part p or where to contact them any more.. but it still doesnt solve the certificate situation lol