[Lancaster] OT : electrical installation

[andy baxter]

Hi ken,

I've had another look at the building regulations (which concern 
dwellings, not sure about commercial space), and you don't need to 
notify anyone for changing a socket - it's only major work like 
replacing a ring main that needs to be notified.

andy

On 21/08/11 12:52, Ken Hough wrote:
> Andy,
>
> AFAIK, you can do the installation yourself, but this must then be checked out
> by a qualified (certified?) electrician. Failure to have this check is likely to
> leave you open to insurance problems.
>
> I've often wondered just how meaningful any check by an electrician can be
> unless he also pulls up floorboards, etc.
>
> The electrics in my own house had been put in by supposedly qualified
> electricians, but when I did look under the floor boards, I found that two
> double sockets had been daisy chained off the ring main and the cable
> terminals were very slack! Also, some of the wires had been stripped back so
> far as to leave over 1" of exposed live wire outside the cable terminals.
>
> So much for "qualified"!
>
> Ken Hough
> Kendal
> Cumbria
> UK
>
> On Sunday 21 August 2011 09:37:22 andy baxter wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> This is way OT, but does anyone know about the regulations around
>> electrical installations in the UK? A friend of mine has asked me to
>> build them a brew temperature controller for their micro-brewery, and it
>> would be good to know where I stand with regard to all this.
>>
>> One specific question is are people allowed to install their own
>> electrical sockets? I would like them to have an RCD socket in the the
>> wall to protect the circuit. They only cost about 15 quid, and I could
>> probably do it myself safely enough, but I'm not a qualified electrician
>> and I would like to know if doing so is likely to cause trouble for me
>> or them later on.
>>
>> Also, are there any rules which would apply to the rest of the system?
>> Roughly, I'm planning to use a microcontroller to operate an AC solid
>> state switch module, which would control a convection heater in the
>> insulated cabinet they are building. This is a prebuilt module with
>> screw terminals, not separate parts, so I think it should be safe, but
>> again I would like to know if there's any legal stuff I could fall foul of.
>>
>> any help appreciated,
>>
>> andy baxter
>>
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