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Yeah i think i read somewhere on a rewire them sort of things dont apply the same as on a newbuilds so you could have the sockets on the skirting board in a sense lol the meter is in the same place in the living room in the corner in a cupboard in the alcove next to the chimney breast well was...

Browsing over the regs one thing im looking at is that the current consumer unit is in the living room in a cupboard around 2ft from the floor i was looking a replacing like for like location but wondering if this hight would meet modern regs

Yeah for sure i mean its a diy forum not a by the book consultancy page but still good for advice now and then , just to add here is the email responce so i had it in writing Hi Mark Your email for some strange reason has come through to me. Yes you are correct, you will need to make an...

Yeah , i enjoy chatting on here as its good to have a discussion but yeah there is alot of misinformed people maybe because every building control works a little different but yeah he seemed a real decent guy he almost seemed to say if they the likes of a eicr then they would basically sign it...

so ive spoken this morning with my local building inspector and its as simple as submitting a building notice for £303 pounds which covers everything till the issue of a certificate They say submit the notice , start the work they maybe send out there consultant along the way but perhaps not...

See for me as a true diyer i would be happy with this The head of Building Control pompously insisted that there was no way that I could rewire my own house without assuming the DIY route where I would submit full written plans with full drawings including all cable routes, joist hole...

Thats what i mean though please tell me the bits what are not easy lol covering what i have said earlier in my post about the board choice the rcbo ratings the cable choice clipped direct etc like when we are talking a mess are we talking getting all the loops mixed up and for example...

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Yeah ok so depending if your wiring to the switch with neutral at the switch or wiring to the pendants and using the blue wire as a switched live etc please tell me the complicity pete :-D

Yeah i mean my first route was gonna be just do it myself get a eicr and that be that i would then know it was safe cause i know how its been physically installed and the test would show there was nothing wired wrong and such like it was just when i read more into when a install cert can be...

Thanks again for the replies yeah so its kind of one of them old style british technicalities where its not illegal to do your own diy rewire but its not really the done thing and your only really using a route not really intended for DIY unless your a diy spark as a couple of the local...

Thanks again for the replies yeah so its kind of one of them old style british technicalities where its not illegal to do your own diy rewire but its not really the done thing and your only really using a route not really intended for DIY unless your a diy spark as a couple of the local...

Thats fair enough maybe i dont know every single correct term in the electricians lingo for example maybe a electrician wouldnt say that he would do his lights in a daisy chain method i dont know... but regardless of the terminology the basic fact leads to the same the brown live goes in the L...

The route im hopeing its going to go is i contact building control and tell/show them my plans they agree to come and inspect the house and see the plans 300/400 quid they then tell me to proceed i go ahead and first fix the full house at this point they come and inspect again i then second...

i suppose thats the issue talking on these forums no one knows each other from adam so we dont now what anyones DIY capabilities are , you can have a have a go saturday morning steven who has literally no basic clue what a rcbo even is and someone who has a fair bit of basic knowledge but like...

haha dont go down the line of the forum standard murdo (get a professional in) these forums are there for advice so why should multiple posts asking for help and advice matter but to cover your point ive spoken to some local sparks who are not so keen unless they are doing the full job them...

Ow ok so when folk talk about a poor designed system they mean in the sense of practicability more then safety using your example there doing a ring circuit for """1 socket in the bathroom"" there no safety issue doing this just a waste of cable i remember when i spoke to one of my...

yeah i agree... but you get some that say its not as simple as running cable A-B but it pritty much is aslong as common sense is used aswell as the correct rated rcbo for the cable its protecting and aswell as the correct size cable for the load in domestic house 99 percent time would 2.5mm /...

Small 2 bed cottage yeah so thats what i mean if not 3200 then even 4k/5k so diy building control route even if it was 2k with inspections its still gonna be a 2k saving