DIYers/Builders...when will it end

[J&M Electrical]

How much longer are Builder and DIY'ers going to carry on 'de-valuing' our trade. It seems the more i read on here and the more i see out on site DIY electrics are getting more and more common. It winds me up that we go to college for 3/4 Years to get a qualification that enables us to work safely yet every Tom Dick and Harry can go into B&Q/Screwfix etc buy some cable and sockets, have a quick look at a diagram B&Q have kindly put up for them and then go home and bodge their electrics. The Gas lads seem to be starting to get it sorted but we haven't. Personally the only way i think this will stop is to give every qualified electrician a card similar to the Gas Safe card and make it law that electrical items can only be sold to people who hold this card. Am i on my own or do others feel the same? Sorry to rant but it makes my blood boil.

 

[GLENNSPARK]

Someone's excluded methinks!

well it happened to the best of us....i guess it can now happen to the worst....

 

[ipf]

well it happened to the best of us....i guess it can now happen to the worst....

True........and I don't mean you.lol.

 

[i=p/u]

electric between yous two. reduce your resistance by hugging

 

[mickys86]

Come on guys.. Its hardly rocket science? Look at some of the things you come accross on your travels, Installed by a supposed qualified spark! DIYers are just people like everyone else and with a short course can be a PRO !!
Changing a CU is a step by step process. Just think about it??

Anything can be a step by step process. But doesn't mean if your not trained you should be doing it. I'm sure it states somewhere in the electricity at work act that you have to be trained and competent.

That and the testing the bonding the upgrading of tails and not to mention the borrowed neutral.

 

[i=p/u]

well sai mickey in mentioning trained and competent which is they key words to this subject.

 

[GLENNSPARK]

well sai mickey in mentioning trained and competent which is they key words to this subject.

its competent person/s trev....

 

[Strima]

Kinda makes me laugh all these people comparing wiring to surgery as if to be an electrician requires you to be as skilled educated and intellegent as a doctor is required to be. Stop flattering yourselves guys, its a fairly simple manual job that, as with many manual jobs, can in very rare circumstances, be potentially fatal.

I would respond but it appears he has been banned.

No one here claims to be as skilled, educated and as intelligent as a surgeon however when people have spent years and lots of hard earned cash to be qualified in a highly regulated working environment then they have a right to be protective over their jobs, skills and knowledge.

 

[GLENNSPARK]

even a throwback could do this job....what you think Dave?...
oh sorry....he aint allowed to comment at this particular time....

 

[mickys86]

What did he say to get banned??? I definitely missed somat

 

[GLENNSPARK]

What did he say to get banned??? I definitely missed somat

dont know mick dont care either....stop him embarassing himself though....for a bit like...

 

[GLENNSPARK]

contrary to what many may think about me....i aint out to get anyone.....i just dont like those that profess to know it all...without backing it up