Not a sparky, but always heard that there should be no visible copper in connections.
I've messed up - electric shock after plastering wall
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Green and yellow is mandatory - not merely preferred.
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Bi-colour combination of green and yellow ONLY.
As I said, preferably green/yellow, but if the only other colour he has is green then it would suffice. Better to have a correct 'old' colour than the completely wrong colour or nothing at all. No-one is going to be prosecuted for using the old colour coding.
Green would not suffice. It is expressly forbidden by BS7671.
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Some people obviously do not understand the meaning of "something is better than nothing" AND its all a mute point because the OP bought some green/yellow sleeving after all.
And BS7671 is a series of recommendations NOT the law - so if someone used blue sleeving then it would still do it's job - and it would be obvious to anyone opening it up what it was doing because it's on the earth wires. stop labouring over something petty that does not exist!
And BS7671 is a series of recommendations NOT the law - so if someone used blue sleeving then it would still do it's job - and it would be obvious to anyone opening it up what it was doing because it's on the earth wires. stop labouring over something petty that does not exist!
Yes I really enjoyed having a goplastering, I'm happy to say I did another wall and it was a better result. Do you have any tips?
Cheers Larry
At least in England and Wales, there is nothing "mandatory" about anything in BS7671. I can't speak for other countries.
Good luck explaining to the judge how your electrical knowledge and expertise is greater than the combined knowledge of the British Electrotechnical Committee (BEC) and the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)
I said nothing about electrical knowledge. I merely reminded people that nothing in BS7671 is 'mandatory' (at least, in England and Wales), and I would have absolutely no difficulty in explaining that to a judge, since it is an undeniable fact.
It may often be well-intentioned, but we see a lot of 'scare-mongering' which talks about courts and judges etc. Only in the most expectational circumstances would anything to do with an electrical installation get anywhere near a court, and the colour of sleeving on a CPC is certainly not an issue that would ever get tested in court. In fact, I'm far from convinced that you could find anywhere in BS7671 a requirement for a bare CPC to be sleeved at all.
Well the only purpose in that statement is to imply that the regs can be ignored, and any bad consequences are unpunishable
You have no idea of the veracity of that statement, and it is wrong to imply regs can be broken with impunity.
I think you have missed the point.
How can you break, let alone be prosecuted for breaking, a regulation that does not exist?
How can you break, let alone be prosecuted for breaking, a regulation that does not exist?
You may choose to interpret it in that way, but I was merely pointing out a factual inaccuracy.
Having said that, because they are not 'mandatory', the 'regulations' can be ignored, with no risk of punishment, provided that one can successfully argue that the requirements of (the one sentence of) Part P of the Building Regs have been satisfied.
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