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[highspark]

Whats the big hoo haa? Just sort the cert out for it. Any bodged work sort it out to her cost. End off.

 

[Knobhead]

Whats the big hoo haa? Just sort the cert out for it. Any bodged work sort it out to her cost. End off.

You ever tried getting money out of relatives. Blood and stone come to mind.

 

[SPARTYKUS]

Would you class a domestic electrical installation that under regulation requires RCD protection that doesn't have an RCD as "satisfactory" on a periodic?

nasty one is sockets used outside. Nowt to stop someone plugging in an RCD into the socket. As said if all tip top to the 15th or when it was done then C3

 

[Knobhead]

Why was this post moved?

 

[Marvo]

Why was this post moved?

I moved it from General, it was originally heading for the Testing and Certification forum but when it got into the issuing of dodgy NIC letters etc it was more suited to Chit-Chat.

 

[highspark]

You ever tried getting money out of relatives. Blood and stone come to mind.

What has made up myths got to do with anything. Blood - stone whatever... Either she coughs up or theirs no insurance.

 

[D80]

What has made up myths got to do with anything. Blood - stone whatever... Either she coughs up or theirs no insurance.

What a lovely way to treat your mother that would be!

 

[jase]

Would you class a domestic electrical installation that under regulation requires RCD protection that doesn't have an RCD as "satisfactory" on a periodic?

If it is perfectly safe then yes, there was no need for RCD protection in the 1960's when a lot of houses were built, so you gonna condemm every house in the whole uk that doesnt have any RCD's even tho there was no requirement for them when they were wired???? Scaremongering comes to mind.
like i said, C3 improvement required, I.E, doesnt meet CURRENT regs, but not unsafe.

 

[electromonkey]

Whats the big hoo haa? Just sort the cert out for it. Any bodged work sort it out to her cost. End off.

It's not a hoo haa about rectifying any work that does need doing. The point that some of you guys have missed is that we are on here every day banging on about work not being completed in accordance to Part P etc and here I am with family members carrying out Major Works with no testing or certification. I don't know yet if it has even been carried out correctly! LOL

And, as if I'm going to charge my little old Nan, unless she wants to use her heating allowance to pay me!:wink_smile:

 

[highspark]

It's no different than QS's letting part qualified lads change fuse boards, rewire kitchens etc etc. then signing the work off and that's why PartP and certification is a load of crap!

 

[electromonkey]

If it is perfectly safe then yes, there was no need for RCD protection in the 1960's when a lot of houses were built, so you gonna condemm every house in the whole uk that doesnt have any RCD's even tho there was no requirement for them when they were wired???? Scaremongering comes to mind.
like i said, C3 improvement required, I.E, doesnt meet CURRENT regs, but not unsafe.

A bit melodramatic there Jase. There was no mention ofcondemning an installation without RCD protection.

Her house, like most in the South Wales valleys is on a TT and as I had said in my post, I referred to her set up as....

a domestic electrical installation that under regulation requires RCD protection

....but I can see how that could have been misinterpreted.

There are plenty of brass fittings knocking about, an additional CU in her garage supplying power to the outside including a pump for a pond and a couple of outdoor sockets. I am pretty confident that this was not installed by a spark, though my grandfather, if still alive would probably regard his own work as "professional standard". LOL

Luckily it snowed this weekend so I'm off the hook. For now!

 

[electromonkey]

It's no different than QS's letting part qualified lads change fuse boards, rewire kitchens etc etc. then signing the work off and that's why PartP and certification is a load of crap!

Unless the QS is actually overseeing the work taking place.

What you say about Part P certification. Agreed!

 

[jase]

sorry you just said under regulation requires RCD, i took this to mean reg 522, at no point did you mention it being TT, as for being off the hook well, you might be for now, but your poor old grandma is sitting in an installation with a C1 coding if she has a TT system with no RCD protection, wonder what the Ra is and the PFC, let alone disconection times,

 

[ringer]

So I get a phone call from my mother in the week.
...
MUM: Well, your Nan's insurance company has just written to her and they say they'd like her to have one or if she's had one, for her to send them a copy. Can you do one?
...

I wonder what prompted the insurance company to write such a letter? Not saying I disagree with it, in fact quite the opposite, but am surprised to hear of it.

 

[electromonkey]

sorry you just said under regulation requires RCD, i took this to mean reg 522, at no point did you mention it being TT, as for being off the hook well, you might be for now, but your poor old grandma is sitting in an installation with a C1 coding if she has a TT system with no RCD protection, wonder what the Ra is and the PFC, let alone disconection times,

I thought I had less to type by making it a given that the RCD was needed rather than listing the reasons why it required an RCD. Obviously that turned out to be wrong!

Agreed. I may have plenty to do, we'll see what the testing throws up but there is an RCD, my old man installed a new board remember?

I wonder what prompted the insurance company to write such a letter? Not saying I disagree with it, in fact quite the opposite, but am surprised to hear of it.

A few years ago, my grandparents rather foolishly sold a percentage of their home to a company to free up some equity. Now that company has a vested interest in my grandmother's home, hence the letter regarding the standard of the electrical installation.