Re: Re: New Regs to kill DIY HA?

[Stuart Grimshaw <stuart.grimshaw@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 13:02:39 -0000, Martin Wonders
<martin.wonders@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I don't see what the issue is really.
> As I understand it at the moment when you are doing any building work
> approved by planning there is a requirement for inspection
> by building control. Part P brings all major electrical work into this
> bracket, anyone can do it, you just need
> to notify building control, as you do with foundations, drains etc,
and they
> will inspect the installation (at a cost of course).
>
> Is this correct? if it is then why the fuss?

My origional point was for killing HA, not major electrical re-wires etc.

For example a couple of years  ago, I replaced two outside lights &
added two LW11 DIN modules to enable computer control of these lights.
Now this work was trivial but under the new regulations would have
required inspection as it wasn't simply replacing a light switch, the
cost of that inspection would have stopped me doing it.

I also plan to add a relay to allow computer control of the central
heating, with most boilers this is again fairly trivial, but will
require inspection so I doubt I'll do it now (or if I do, just say it
was done this year.

The point of the email was that it would kill off DIY HA installations
rather than self builders who choose to do their own electrical work,
as you rightly point out that needs inspection anyway.

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-S