Part-P preparations. Not strictly DIY.

[John Stumbles]

who? what? where?!

just seems to be a portal to other sites

[Mike Harrison]

Considering how clueless the rest of it is, probably not....

[Stefek Zaba]

While

gets you to the well-known UK sparkieshop.

Treating you first to a Macromedia Flash Bouncing Ball, for which the clueless w-kUs will've paid some ponytail a few thousand quid for, mind you...

[Doctor Evil]

Unvented is not policed, but when one bursts and the insurance compan demands to see certificates, then it will hit the fan, and th installer will be prosecuted.

Despite corgi and all the rest, combis are still installed by non corg people, usually contractors doing renovation work. Th jack-of-all-trades builder who turned plumber, who picked it up as h went along with any education, does it.

So, when would an uncertified electrical job get picked up? Whe somone gets electrocuted I assume. At a house sale? Not likely as an electrcial safety certificates would be for the whole house and the will be done just prior to teh sale

-- Doctor Evil

[quisquiliae]

Or just a"click here to download plugin" if you don't (on principle) have flash installed. In which case display source and find the link to

now why should I go to all that trouble

[John Stumbles]

... and then you get a site which only says 'we got stuff' without telling you anything other than the general categories they've classified the stuff into. E.g. Products overview -> Sundries has a picture of (amongst other completely unrelated stuff) some sort of tester and a text so pointy-headed and useless my head would explode if I tried to quote it here, and a lot of white space in which they could have actually said something useful about the sort of stuff they classified as sundries.

Anyhow seems the nearest branch is c. 40 miles from here and they don't do mail order :-(

[Steven Briggs]

In message , John Stumbles writes

Very interesting comment John. I did 2381 a couple of years back, it would be nice if the BEng, CEng & MIEE actually counted for something useful!

[John]

I really wonder what the hell our institution commitees were doing when the (alleged) consultation process was taking place

[Fred]

I agree with this. I am an MIEE and in my field it doesn't really count for much. I'm considering resigning and saving the extortionate membership fee. I feel particularly aggrieved that my membership fee may have lined the pockets of those who pushed forward this law. I'm flabbergasted that the IEE have taken this stand and even allowed letters in the "IEE review" from self interested parties such as NICEC spouting out emotional crap like "If it saves one life"!

[Mike]

Join the IEEE. Doesn't help with Part P but at least it has some credence as a body working for it's members, albeit mostly in the US.

[Doctor Evil]

So, you can do any wiring as long as its not in the wet areas? Are you in the same group as a DIYer then?

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[Mike Harrison]

Perhaps a sharing arrangement with other local contractors may be viable in some circumstances to divide the initial and ongoing calibration costs. Maybe a local hire shop could be encouraged to carry suitable equipment for daily hire to infrequent users ?

Last time I looked, the requirement was only to be able to offer this to the customer at extra cost, So I would imagine this would be a re-selling job, like the dodgy extended warranties at high-street stores. I would be surprised if someone had not already set up a scheme for this.

From

:

"Competent Persons are required to inform their clients about the option of taking out such warranty cover, providing them with information of where it can be purchased. It is the client's decision whether or not to purchase such cover."

[Tony Bryer]

circumstances to

hire to infrequent

do such hiring

[Andrew Gabriel]

They do. I'm pretty sure HSS carry such kit. I have hired from a more specialist test equipment outfit in Watford or St.Albans (I forget which) when I was doing all the wiring for a new computer room with a previous employer. That came with calibration certificates, and I think I was even given copies of them to keep.

[John Stumbles]

[replying to Doctor Evil coz Ed's article has expired from my server]

If it's pukka test kit you could get it calibrated. When I did mine (OK, Christian's :-) it was £20.00 per instrument, plus £7.50 P+P (from Ballistic Research

>3) And this is the gotcha - 'an insurance backed work guarantee lasting 6

ISTR when I was doing my CORGI registration docs the other day I came across a number to phone for quotes on insurance backed guarantees.