Health and Safety, Regulations, qualifications,registration etc etc etc.
Now i'm not an electrician/plumber/heating engineer or any of those, but i do have a modicum of common sense, and as such am finding it increasingly frustrating that should i want to extend a ring circuit in my own home I have to jump through hoops to then pay someone to do exactly what i was going to do.
Aren't all these regulations/laws getting rid of the whole natural selection process which has been going on since time began, slowest and weakest got eaten, has progressed to most stupid and likely to contribute nothing to the gene pool get electrocuted/blown up/drowned??
I do see the argument for traceability, in that someone will in the future buy my house, and work i have done may or may not be up to the required standard, but i am capable of reading, i know that aformentioned ring main, must generally travel in a horizontal or vertical axis from the device which it is feeding, and that any connecting devices must be easy to access.
To be honest the 16th edition has been getting right on my nerves recently, i thought it was guidance, but my company seems to be taking it as gospel, and now i have a 42U rack which some clever chap on a higher pay scale want's earth straps running to every panel. Now i wouldn't have a problem with this normally, but it's supposed to be a quick build easy access rack, or it will be if you don't connect earths to every panel, which have to be at a specific torque, which when you remove the panel have to be taken off to remove the trip hazard only to be re connected and re torqued once you have replaced the Cat 5 cable a job which should have taken 30 seconds is now up to 10 minutes of dicking about. And it's no for my benefit, all i can see it being for is the monkey who tries to connect the rack to a power source and then sticks his tongue on it, and if he is going to do that, surely it's no great loss really.
Am i alone in thinking that we are spending far too much time, effort and money on protecting idiots from themselves???
Now i'm not an electrician/plumber/heating engineer or any of those, but i do have a modicum of common sense, and as such am finding it increasingly frustrating that should i want to extend a ring circuit in my own home I have to jump through hoops to then pay someone to do exactly what i was going to do.
Aren't all these regulations/laws getting rid of the whole natural selection process which has been going on since time began, slowest and weakest got eaten, has progressed to most stupid and likely to contribute nothing to the gene pool get electrocuted/blown up/drowned??
I do see the argument for traceability, in that someone will in the future buy my house, and work i have done may or may not be up to the required standard, but i am capable of reading, i know that aformentioned ring main, must generally travel in a horizontal or vertical axis from the device which it is feeding, and that any connecting devices must be easy to access.
To be honest the 16th edition has been getting right on my nerves recently, i thought it was guidance, but my company seems to be taking it as gospel, and now i have a 42U rack which some clever chap on a higher pay scale want's earth straps running to every panel. Now i wouldn't have a problem with this normally, but it's supposed to be a quick build easy access rack, or it will be if you don't connect earths to every panel, which have to be at a specific torque, which when you remove the panel have to be taken off to remove the trip hazard only to be re connected and re torqued once you have replaced the Cat 5 cable a job which should have taken 30 seconds is now up to 10 minutes of dicking about. And it's no for my benefit, all i can see it being for is the monkey who tries to connect the rack to a power source and then sticks his tongue on it, and if he is going to do that, surely it's no great loss really.
Am i alone in thinking that we are spending far too much time, effort and money on protecting idiots from themselves???
