You mean you pass the cables through holes in the work-top ?!...
BTW Mary, one day you will learn to post correctly and get your attributions correct, although in your defence the message you replied to was by an idiot top poster...
There's a letter in the local evening rag from an "Area Engineer" for NICEIC regarding this (in reply to a local councillor whose original letter I'd missed). One of his paragraphs says: "Electrical installers will not be barred from working during the registration period, but for any contract starting after January 1,
2005, they will have to notify the local building control service before work beings (sic) until such time that they have been assessed as competent."No mention of a "cut-off" date.
His next paragraph suggests that the aim is to avoid cowboys rather than d-i-yers: "As the organisation set up to protect the public from unsafe and unsound electrical work, we welcome this law as much-needed protection against the rogue traders who prey on vulnerable homeowners."
From: Mary Fisher ( snipped-for-privacy@zetnet.co.uk) Subject: Re: Part P Electrical Panic!
washing
Do you think one could make a more efficient appliance by combining the function of those last 2 into one?
The other option is to have the sockets you need be all not spurs, so that you can double up any time you want in future. And of course install them in such a way that thats practical.
NT
I'm open to suggestions.
Mary
Once upon a time, Tricity made an electric cooker with a transistor radio built in, and a telescopic antenna in the top...
Obviously for work top appliances like kettles etc you have normal above worktop sockets. But the problem arises with under worktop appliances like washing machines. Suppose you could hack the plug off and drill a hole in the worktop to bring the cable up to a socket. But I prefer a socket in an adjacent cupboard - that's all. Of course you could have a switch at worktop height for isolation purposes - I just can't see the need for it since the only time I'll switch these off is at service time, and I would then unplug it.
..but of course it will have the exact opposite effect as the increased cost of jumping through the hoops will bring a bonanza to the cheaper cowboys.
Ah, I shall have to explain the joke. What do you get if you run dehydrate and steam functions at the same time? A box that does nothing. If you combine the 2 functions so they will run simulatenously, you can then make the appliance much more efficient by removing all the guts entirely, it'd just be an empty box.
NT
I wonder if you've ever run a kitchen?
:-)
It's rare to be de-hydrating and steaming at the same time. Believe me, if there were a way to combine the two I would, on environmental grounds!
Mary
Methinks youve still not got the joke: maybe someone else can explain it better :)
NT
On 13 Dec 2004 06:11:27 -0800, snipped-for-privacy@meeow.co.uk (N. Thornton) strung together this:
Nope, methinks it'd be a waste of time.
I think you're wrong. It just wasn't very amusing. Perhaps mine wasn't either ...
:-)
Mary
On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 15:09:53 -0000, "Mary Fisher" strung together this:
Well I must admit I never saw yours, which bit was it?
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