Hi,
Forty years ago, I served an apprenticeship as an (industrial) electrician. After doing a little work in the domestic sector, I became a printer service engineer and did this for thirty years. Now retired, I have inherited a two bedroom flat which needs a little extra wiring to accomodate replacement LOT20 storage heaters.
I'd like to do the wiring myself and it seems pretty straighforward. I intend to upgrade and extend the wiring by adding four FCUs to the only ring main in the flat. This will be done by extending the ring and/or spurring off it. I also need to add two radial circuits feeding 20A DP switches to accomodate the off-peak supply to two (net new) storage heaters (there is no storage heater in either bedroom at the mo). The Three-way plastic (cartridge type) fusebox would also need to be upgraded to a six-way metal clad type incorporating 20A MCBs.
I am aware that some testing would need to be done by a suitably qualified person, but would it be legal for me to do the work myself as long as the job was signed off by such a person?
By the way, I had the EICR done in February of this year. All was OK.
Thanks for reading,
Chris.
Forty years ago, I served an apprenticeship as an (industrial) electrician. After doing a little work in the domestic sector, I became a printer service engineer and did this for thirty years. Now retired, I have inherited a two bedroom flat which needs a little extra wiring to accomodate replacement LOT20 storage heaters.
I'd like to do the wiring myself and it seems pretty straighforward. I intend to upgrade and extend the wiring by adding four FCUs to the only ring main in the flat. This will be done by extending the ring and/or spurring off it. I also need to add two radial circuits feeding 20A DP switches to accomodate the off-peak supply to two (net new) storage heaters (there is no storage heater in either bedroom at the mo). The Three-way plastic (cartridge type) fusebox would also need to be upgraded to a six-way metal clad type incorporating 20A MCBs.
I am aware that some testing would need to be done by a suitably qualified person, but would it be legal for me to do the work myself as long as the job was signed off by such a person?
By the way, I had the EICR done in February of this year. All was OK.
Thanks for reading,
Chris.