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Thanks again. Please allow me to clarify. I do understand the notification requirements of part P, and so far I do not plan to do any notifiable work. However I do plan to have an extension built (and will doing non-notifiable replacing and extending electrical work as part of this) and...

Thanks, that is useful information. I suppose I was thinking that after the agreement the suppliers might actually change their voltages. But I suppose if the EU has simply agreed to set a nominal voltage with tolerances which allow the suppliers to do nothing, then of course that's what they...

Assuming that this is adding new colour wiring in a house with old colour wiring, don't forget to put a up a notice to that effect on or near the CU.

I guess you got the inspection done because your survey recommended it? If so then you don't HAVE to get it fixed, but OUGHT to. The age of the property, or more specifically the wiring, is key. If it is very old then the risks are higher. If it is fairly new, then you are safer as long as you...

Thanks for the advice. Your points are well taken, but as I noted, I only bought it for home use so that I can comply with part P, so I didn't want to spend too much. I have been watching e-bay for a while, and see that the Robin and Fluke units (didn't know about Megger) go for several hundred...

Thanks. Aren't we supposed to be on 230Vac now? I have sent an e-mail to my elect company for confirmation of supply parameters anyway.

Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately at least for my unit this is not actually true. I have just tested the unit and I the IEC connector lead would not work for continuity and insulation tests. When I connected my multimeter leads to the other sockets, those tests worked! Looks like I need to...

I have just bought a used Robin KTS1610 for home use. It only has two test lead sets, both with IEC 3-pin mains plugs to connect to the instrument. One set has a UK mains plug for socket testing and the other has three leads with interchangeable probes/croc clips. But the instrument also has...

Yes this is interesting. If didthathurt is quoting the inspector correctly then it suggests that he is confused about the rules, because "competent" and "registered" are quite different things. I am "competent" but "non-registered" and will be doing my own non-notifiable work on my house...

Alex & Jar, you do not have to notify for this work. The only question you need to ask yourself before deciding it what impact this might have when you come to SELL the house. Have a look at the HIP rules (http://www.homeinformationpacks.gov.uk) and like me you might get nervous about exactly...

Thanks guys. Yes it looks like I'll need to get up the ladder first and just put up with a few seconds (hopefully) of alarm before I can nobble it.

I moved into a house not long ago so I inherited an alarm system with problems. I have managed to get the parts I need including a brand new control system PCB (importantly with the default engineering code!), so I'm ready to put it right. At my last house I modified my alarm system but I had...

Remember there are two basic requirements for part P: 1) Notification of notifiable work 2) Competence/standards The only difference between registered and non-registered electricians is WHEN they need to notify notifiable work. As has been stated, if he wasn't registered then he/you should...

No disrespect to CamperPete, but that's not the whole story. There are fundamentally two requirements concerning Part P 1) Notification to building control 2) Competence and standard of work As CamperPete quite rightly points out, most electrical work which a typical DIYer would want to...

My new (13-year-old) house has creaking floors upstairs. I will want to replace the tired old carpets with wood laminate or new carpet (depending on who wins the argument, me or the wife), so want to do something to attend to this. What should I expect? Have to replace the chipboard or just...

If you can't or won't do it yourself, then go for BT. I have a lot of experience with BT, and although I can fault their management - BT is one of the worst managed companies in existence - I cannot fault their engineers and I have met a lot. Yes they operate on a fixed price basis. On a lot...

You are partially correct. However if you have an LCD TV which has a significant lag between picture and sound then it is basically a duff design! What you do need to be aware of is that cheaper LCD panels do no have a high enough response time for a good picture, although I must state that...

Agile, you can do both. Support is in the graphics device driver, not in the OS. Depends on why you want two monitors. If it's just to extend your desktop then using a dual output card will suffice. However if you want to run an application which needs GPU power (such as 3D rendering or some...

I stand corrected. What does concern me though is what the manufacturer's claims for longer life actually mean. I very much doubt that when 1 LED fails, they consider that the whole lamp has failed. More likely they consider that the lamp is operational until the 15th LED has died! Whilst...

Breezer, An armature is the moving part of an electromechanical device, which a light switch is. Vanillapod clearly stated "i replaced a one way switch with a metal type (which needs an earth)" which means that most of the body of the light will be earthed, providing the possibility of the...