Awful DIY advice

[John Rumm]

So you would consider what could be over a hundred £Ks worth of damage caused by a half arsed electrical installation as "relatively minor"?

Its not a crisis, but its a plausible result of a poor installation, so why encourage it? Its not like it would make much difference to the cost to actually work out the size of cable required and use it.

Even a numpty guideline in a DIY book could have a table of cable sizes against maximum load.

Personally I really can't get into that "any old crap that is not immediately and obviously lethal will do" mentality...

YMMV

Which helps, but its not a substitute for earthing.

[meow2222]

no, I consider the level of risk relatively minor, and the amount of potent ial damage dramatically lower than that. To propose a leak causing over 100 k of damage seems unrealistic - if someone really had that much of value ar e they really likely to be diying a wonky install based on having read some thing in a book?

ooking. Crisis.

is it? Fridge compressors cut out due to overheating as a matter of routine , and they don't seem to have any significant reliability problem resulting from it. Sometimes its good to bring these issues back to realistic propor tions.

I don't recall anyone encouraging it

Yes - the writer presumably lacks expertise, thus can't.

I don't think I've ever seen anyone on this newsgroup promoting that attitu de.

If one's earth is disconnected to due darwinian stupidity, then yes it is. Insulation, earthing and RCD are all simply layers of protection against sh ock injury.

NT

[geoff]

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Nothing to do with solar cells and FIT ?

[Jules Richardson]

Or to give that stuff its proper title: No, more nails!