I'm not sure your objection is justified.and have made no effort to keep up to date with the market since then.
I'm not sure your objection is justified.
I'm not an electrician, and I'm not going to comment on whether your expectations are 'unreasonable' (since that is essentially an individual opinion), but I do think that your expectations are unrealistic, at least in relation to a product as relatively unusual and uncommon as you have been talking about. I agree with everything that EFLI (a fairly recently retired electrician, as I understand) said.My general observation, though, stands. You may feel my expectations are unreasonable. That just indicates that you are not the right electrician for me, or that I am not the right customer for you. No matter. Other electricians and customers are, I am sure, available.
Nope, apart from the obvious like "I would expect an electrician to understand the inner workings of a consumer unit" to an appropriate level (i.e. to ensure a safe install).Do you expect electricians to understand the inner workings of products?
That's fair enough, up to a point, but would you really expect all electricians to necessarily know about types of CUs which were as rare in the marketplace and in UK installations as the products we are talking about?Continuing the CU theme, I would expect an electrician - even without the regs forcing her to know - to be aware that consumer units come in various forms ...
I'm keen not to get embroiled in a fight with the forum here but my expectations are not unrealistic. I have met plenty of electricians who are broadly aware of the range of products that are available. Note I'm not expecting them to have specialist or detailed knowledge. I'm not objecting to people who are not experts in every widget. I am objecting to the reasonable proportion I have met who, in answer to the question "Can we use wireless switches to avoid ploughing up the frieze in that room?" reply "Dunno if wireless switches exist, sorry. I only know Crabtree like what they sell in Screwfix".but I do think that your expectations are unrealistic
I'm getting a bit confused here, since all your observations have been about the product knowledge of electricians (which we could debate for ever), despite the fact that, as far as I can make out, the only person here who has made statements and asked questions which have indicated little/no knowledge of the products which interest you has told you that he is not a domestic electrician.I'm keen not to get embroiled in a fight with the forum here but my expectations are not unrealistic. I have met plenty of electricians who are broadly aware of the range of products that are available.
I'm getting a bit confused here, since all your observations have been about the product knowledge of electricians (which we could debate for ever), despite the fact that, as far as I can make out, the only person here who has made statements and asked questions which have indicated little/no knowledge of the products which interest you has told you that he is not a domestic electrician.
Kind Regards, John
I work in IT cyber security
So if a spark connects up your latest piece of high security equipment you expect him to know all its capabilities?
I'd aim to tell them as much as I knew. I am not sure how these questions of yours relate to the thread thus far?And what would you tell him when he asked how does this work? and what does it do?
You are talking complete nonsense.
Even changes that so far have probably not found their way into more than a tiny percentage of UK electrical installations? If so, that's the bit that seems a little unrealistic to me.I am making a general observation - admittedly one that Winston's comment raised in my brain - about "professionals" who fail to stay generally abreast of change.
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