should i sell my regs book?

[ExArmy]

so i hear the 1st ammendment is coming out in june or thereabouts and there is going to be a new (green) book.

so should i sell my red book now whilst it's still worth something? i see they are still fetching £35 on ebay...

 

[ExArmy]

listed on ebay last night, sold today. £30 including delivery

 

[mayfair]

Result ......now to save the money for new ones

listed on ebay last night, sold today. £30 including delivery

 

[Marvo]

It's a long shot I know but if you can't sell them you can always mail it me me. I wouldn't mind inheriting a red book and an OSG for reference.

 

[cbw]

I sold mine on ebay about a month ago, got £36 for BRB and £15 for OSG

People starting courses still need to buy this edition.

 

[mart1711]

The digital downloads are good value if thats your bag.... £140 for IET members for brb (including june update) GN 1-3, OSG, Electricians guide to building regs.
£280 for above but GN,2 1-8 and also Electrical Installation Design Guide Calculations for Electricians and Designers. If like me you fill in your certs on-site using a laptop the digital version of the brb is fantastic and the search function is pretty reliable.

 

[3000gt ant]

Hold on a min 3000gt ant, you have lost me, you started a fred about you wanting to wire SWA in to a standard plug top in your kitchen and out to your garden, for some decking lights and put another standard socket out let non ip rated for the conditions in your garden, and now you are trying to give advice about updates, if you know about regs why are you asking such things on other freds chap.
3000gt ant

http://www.electriciansforums.net/e...-electrical-forum/31411-outside-lights-2.html

Well almost, i was going to put a non ip rated socket, in a IP rated box and this i see nothing wrong with. And yes the SWA was a daft idea and as such i was put straight by you guys! so thanks. I do know some standards but not all, so thats why i come on here. I am only trying to help out with things i do know about and i would not give advice if i thought it was rubbish. You guys on here know alot more than i do in certain areas and i know maybe a little bit more about other areas?? anyway yes thats the method we use.

cheers
Ant

 

[saabuldin]

so is this green book for real in june. not far. will i have to go back to college.

 

[cbw]

Nope! just an ammendment......No college for a couple of years.

 

[brucelee]

another way of scamming more money they should be free ammendments if you have the 17th with a receipt then only pay for new one when 18th comes out i suppose someone has to pay there wages looks like us

 

[rick]

Totally agree with Brucelee, why should we pay to buy an "amended" version when the differences are probably naff-all anyway and probably little less than changes in chapters headings etc. And why can't they make a free (or at least low cost) PDF version like the guidance of electricity at work?

 

[saabuldin]

So for my next assessment by part p man. Is he gona expect us to have a copy of this new book.

 

[AP Electrical]

Gutted, my van was robbed about a month ago nothing in there apart from all my college stuff - and they took the lot.
had to get all new books so just got osg and 17th edition

 

[3000gt ant]

At some point you would have to have the latest version as the current one will be withdrawn. Until then you will be allowed to use the standard you have. For BS standards you normally have x amount of time before you must be working to the current standard. I agree its a bit of a rip-off but some of these standards in use today are getting quite old. And as someone has said we need to line the pockets of these so called Technical experts, who probably spend alot of time chatting than actually thinking.

 

[Martin Bradley]

All they ever do is amend the f***ing books and we have to pay for it. You find out that what you have done is incorect and you have put people in danger. Who then pays for it to be corrected the customer sure aint going to nor the IEE.
i know its way out, and your knowledge should tell you better, but you never know.
Bruce is correct big time.

 

[Martin Bradley]

No probs 3000gt, i hope we can all help in future.
Sorry chap i could have been more helpfull, its just you get to many people asking questions on how to do things and have no electrical background, and instead of paying for a sparks to get the job done right and with the min amount of distubance for the customer, they want to do it them selfs and and risk killing them self. or the person they are doing the job for on the side, we have to pay a lot of money out each year or the comp we work for and strugle for work, or the customer says how much, i just pay Jo or Bob to do it down the road.