Welcome to Britain! Anyone can install electrical equipment and wiring providing it's done in accordance with BS7671 regulations. If it's Notifiable the Building Authority must be informed but someone else will probably do it.
Anyone can inspect and test installations provided they use test...
Pete, colleges sell courses first and then look for tutors, I can accept guys coming off the tools to teach after years of experience but that one beggars belief.
The reason why they’re always short of trainers is the kids on funded courses often have floated through school and expect to float...
There is a special place for the insurance loss assessors Her Inside has endured. She accidentally dropped her phone into the canal crossing the lock and claimed the loss. She was told that it counted as Water Damage and they would cover it if she sent it to them. She told them it was under 20...
Let me tell you how it will be
There's one for you, nineteen for me
Cos I'm the taxman, yeah, I'm the taxman
Should five per cent appear too small
Be thankful I don't take it all
Cos I'm the taxman, yeah I'm the taxman
If you drive a car, I'll tax the street
If you try to sit, I'll tax your...
Going from being able to wire up a two way switch and ring on a metre wide wooden surface without seeing an Installation certificate,much less completing one to trading as an installer leaves them a long way from competent. I’ve seen DIY work done better.
This urban legend is based on some facts because Mary Wherry, the Daughter of MP Jenny Tonge was tragically killed when she was electrocuted in her own home.
The circumstances of her death were a direct result of shoddy DIY workmanship and bad luck. A new kitchen had been fitted in her home...
Sent to one site and was asked to install light switches and lamps in factory office. Opened door and found fibre glass insulation hanging down from the roof and out of the walls.
Having suffered days of itching previously from fibre glass I asked for suitable PPE and was told to get on with...
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