A certain top South coast Match angler

[boblydon]

-it is all not before time either, thankfully the home owner pack next year should also help to sort out a lot of this aswell..............however it seems only a very small percentage of people seem aware about the regulations, i have hardley read anything about the chages except in the trade press, hopefully soon some tv advertising should be shown to enlighten everyone about there obligations

[Davyred]

Anyway, about this certain top south coast match angler... :P :P :P

[mark]

I still have my doubts that it will change anything. Cowboys will still operate. Our house, when we bought it was \'professionally\' rewired. got the bills from the previous owner. Lots of nice IEE stickers on the guys van, but the lights in the kitchen were switch neutral! Still see the same firm\'s van floating around the dale

I suspect there are countless homes up and down the country with sub-standard electrical systems that the owners have no knowledge of, with the work being done by previous occupiers.

would it not be even more sensible just to put a blanket ban on anyone trying to operate that is substandard. The regs don\'t stop people operating only make it easier to prosecute when they screw up.

If anything is going result in more work for the true professionals then it would be that

[bribones]

erm ill just add that any work i did myself ,was with permission from the council and subject to inspection afterwards ,they even offerd me a job lol,on the whole i agree some people shouldnt be allowed near a screwdriver but basic electrics such as adding a spur are now under the thumb and as such youl have to pay someone to do what you know you can competently do yourself,somehow i dont think itl catch on ,should have been in the chat section this one lol

[boblydon]

your right about the chat section Bri, maybe one of the mods could move it, would deffinatley be more appropiate there, however your very wrong about it catching on it has,and will and things will only get tighter...i would never give any tenant permision to do gas work at the local authority to which i am there gas consultant

[boblydon]

sorry Davey, did you mention something about a some coast angler ??? hee hee!!!! am also sorry for hi jacking your thread, i will start a new one in the corect forum next time, please feel free to hi jack it...i owe you one

[bribones]

not gas work bob i agree that all gas work should be done by corgi registerd plumbers ,but how many tenants or even landlords are going to bring in a sparkie for work they can do themselves ,i had to take a course on farm electrics when i was working out in the sticks and it coverd the basics and some of the more detailed work as well as saftey issues ,i passed the course with credits but i am deamed incompetent becouse i cant afford a grand to go out and get another bit of paper saying i can do the work,ive recently converted my house from a 2 to a 3 bedroom and had to add some circuits in ,the work is well above standard and has passed council inspection but as of now im supposed to pay someone ???

[boblydon]

Bri the point is that is the law, incompetent is possibly the wrong choice of word, the correct word should be unqualified as mentioned earlier by John and Clare.......at the end of the day though means the same thing. you cant do do it.....people with some experince are purely unqualifiedl........a big percentage of diy people are incompetent

[bribones]

bah humbug lol ,those who are qualified or should i say used to be are now not as in bigh`s case time served but incompetent his words not mine lol ,its all down to red tape at the end of the day

oh and this angler bloke ?clean shaven lad with a beared bout 6ft shortish bloke ?

[Edited on 14/1/2005 by bribones]

[john.frain]

must say some great comments have came from davys post (oop) but on the whole if any nesa member would like any advice please dont hesitate to ask its better safe than sorry.

john

sorry davy for going of the beaten track

[sless]

what month was that

[DaveMason]

What about a MP ? He knows jack **** about anything and gets to run the country . A classic case being John Prescott , seemingly a career as a steward in the merchant navy qualified him to be minister of transport!!! If the goverment were are so concerned with safety and competance , where did all the apprenticeship schemes go to then .

[UKFred]

Dave,

There is a book in the Narnia series by CS Lewis that tells of a teacher who was no good as a teacher, so they made her a head, and when she was no good as a head, they made her an Schools Inspector, and when she was no good as an Inspector they made her an MP. It kind of rings true, and that was written in the 1930\'s or 1940\'s, I believe.

I must admit, on a general level, that i get really frustrated when I cant get a decent length of cable on appliances to run them from sockets that are in the wrong place for the way I want to organise my kitchen, and , if a plug gets damaged, I have to cut a bit more cable off to get a new plug on because they all seem to come integrated to the cable these days.

Yet I remember before I got married, in the dim and distant past, thatIi lived in a bedsit with the live and the neutral connected the wrong way round in the socket\". We need a sensible level of regulation, not some idiotic government job creation scheme.

The postings on this topic, forgetting about the Southern Jessie - sorry match angler - have highlighted one thing. 10 people die each year because of improperly fitted electrics. What is the number who are killed as the result of improper maintenance on motor vehicles?

The other thing is that the protection of the public is patchy. Less than 5 miles from my home there is a man in practice as an accountant who has spent time in prison for fraud. It\'s crazy. Who is protecting his clients from him.

Freddie and the Dreamers got it right in the 1960\'s when they told us \"Its a Crazy World We\'re Living In!\"

Fred

[Edited on 15/1/2005 by UKFred]

[Norman]

Bob, are you \"Qualified\" to fit a marine Radar?

[Norman]

Am I qualified to fit a bilge pump?