Hi All
Can I do the following legally under Part P if done as a business transaction;
Replace an existing light switch or socket outlet with another.
Replace an existing ceiling rose with another.
Fit an external security light if the cable terminates in a fused plug, which is plugged into a socket?
Dave
Yes unless in a "special location" - even then possibly depending on your interpretation of the "law".
as above
Yes - it would be a pseudo appliance - probably the wrong way to do it, but as encouraged by the law!
Thanks John. A "special location" being a kitchen or bathoom?
Dave
What happens if you do wiring before the room is a kitchen or bathroom ? Is there are requirement that if an existing wired room becomes a kitchen, that all the wiring must be subject to a part P inspection ? Simon.
On or around 11 Nov 2005 02:24:12 -0800, sm snipped-for-privacy@hotmail.com mused:
I tried that, it didn't wash with the BCO, although this was a fairly substantial job which was a bit sketchy as to it's use at the times of wiring so I just avoided another pointless argument and slapped an NIC certificate on it. If the room is definitely not a kitchen when it is wired then I would say you'd get away with it.
Or what I did below.
That raises a very good point :-)
At what point can a room be called a kitchen, or a bathroom, if it has neither kitchen apliances/fittings or bath etc?
I ripped out my old kitchen completely. All that was left was a waste pipe in the floor. This would have taken the room out of the status of being a kitchen.
After I had done this, I broke into the ring main and added lots of ne sockets. Before anyone asks, I intend to make it a new ring, eventually, by making a minor change to existing wiring, not in the kitchen :-)
Looks like the regs are done for. Just gut the room, modify the electrics and make the room into anything you want it to be :-)
I doubt that retrospective inspections come into the regs.
Dave
That would only work if you were not intending to turn the room you had gutted back into a kitchen after the wiring had been done.
yes, or room with pool or sauna etc.
You also need to keep in mind that part P would apply to wiring outside the locations should the work not come under the "minor works" exemption.
quite.... shows you how barking the whole idea is.
After the room had been wired is the point I am trying to make.
Up to this point, the room could be anything you want to call it.
After you have re-wired it and before you designate it as a bathroom/kitchen, you do not have to comply with part P.
Where does part P come into this after the room is changed into a bathroom/kitchen?
Electrical regs are never retrospective, are they? :-)
Dave
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