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.
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.
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