DIY Legality

[A.Lee]

You mean the 12 volt radio with its transformer brick in the socket outlet.

[Robin]

Are electrical inspection certificates now a legal requirement (as opposed to something which NICEIC et al like to push in order to get more business for their members)?

[A.Lee]

No. The installation must be 'safe', but there is no definition of what 'safe' is, and no requirement for any testing or inspection of the installation.

[johannes]

The selection of goods on display shows that the people living there are a bit snobbish. E.g. Ginseng extract - pah!

[johannes]

Which means that it will be never be switched off at source.

[Tim Streater]

No, your reaction shows *you* are a bit snobbish. Like drivel.

[Trigger]

You need to change your social circle, Judith ;-)

[Jules Richardson]

Not too sure about the switch on the wall almost immediately below it, TBH. I've no idea of the legality or otherwise of it, but it just seems a bit *too* close to the counter-top for my liking.

[Jeff]

No plug-in transformer is plugged in; follow the cable back to a normal

13A plug in the adaptor.

Jeff

[Andy Burns]

It's a Pure DAB radio, it *does* have an external wall-wart.

I suggest there my be a 4-way powerstrip hiding behind the microwave as there aren't enough plugtops visible to supply all the visible appliances.

[ARWadsworth]

The switch is fine.

[Steve Walker]

The adapter wouldn't worry me at all. The worry always used to be overloading and that was why people were advised not to use them. However, all adapters sold for decades have had to be fitted with their own fuse, so overloading isn't an issue. I've not seen an unfused adapter for a very long time.

SteveW

[johannes]

I prefer a box of Drivel 75mg to a box of Korean Ginseng 75mg from Sainsbury's.

HTH.

[Andrew Gabriel]

2-way adapters and double socket outlets don't need fuses. More than 2-way does.

[ARWadsworth]

I'll have to have a dig around in my old emails, but I remember sending John Rumm a link to a 2 to 3 gang convertor plate that did not have a 13A fuse in it.

[Judith]

Is there no specification of a minimum distance from a sink or draining board, and a minimum gap above the work surface?

[Andrew Gabriel]

I wonder if it was a 2-way from one socket outlet, and 1-way from the other socket outlet?

[ARWadsworth]

It was

on here

the bottom.

[A.Lee]

No.

[Mr Pounder]

Judith. This is silly. Why do you hate him so much?

Mr Pounder

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