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Dear Spark123 & Softus, Many thanks for your helpful comments. To my mind the problem boils down to what is a reasonable fee. Council websites up and down the land publicise scales of charges for buildings inspections but virtually none of them mention...

Dear Simon, Thanks for your comment. I agree that theoretically I cannot be charged for testing but if they refuse to come out for less than £300, there's nothing I can do about it. All they have to do is say this is their inspection fee! Spark123 makes this very point. MM

Thanks Adam. Surely "doing it to BS7671" doesn't include "certing" because the certificate is proof that the work complies with the standard. My problem is that I do not have the equipment to test and am not qualified to certify. It was my interpretation that the LABC should pay for these and...

Dear RF, Thanks for your reply too. Sadly, being thick, I don't understand it! MM

Dear Delmel, Thanks for your response. The property is not rented. I know it will need testing. Yes, new tails will be needed (I happen to have a pair to hand!). The earth is OK (upgraded several years ago). MM

I wonder how people have fared with their local council when attempting a d.i.y. consumer unit replacement. After leaving a message requesting a price at two local electrical contractors, without response, I telephoned the local building control, to be told to call in an electrician. The reason...

Many thanks everyone. Crafty and Brisband have put forward convincing arguments - I concede! The shower ought to have local isolation. (Interesting that my initial question was not answered! - Pretty daft one anyway.) MM

Crafty, not daft - I thought your first post was brilliant! Isolation for maintenance makes sense but - back to pedanticism! - if the "maintenance engineer" finds no local switch I would expect him/her to look for it in the next most obvious place - i.e. where the shower gets its water supply...

Thanks again! You've almost convinced me - and I cannot challenge the regulations! It's just that I cannot envisage an emergency which needed switching off an 18V supply in the shower-room. MM

Thanks, Brisband, for your comment and offer. I had looked at the bonding requirements and felt that connection to the earth of the socket in the loft satisfied them. Installing a double-pole pull switch in the shower-room would seem to me somewhat farcical, since the transformer is also in the...

Thanks for the interest in my question. Not quite the reply I was expecting!I thought I was the last word in pedanticism but apparently not! Crafty is right about about diyer - I chose my username with that in mind. RF is right too - the shower is SELV (18V) with a miniscule integral pump. On TV...

I note that "each circuit" supplying a bathroom or shower must be connected to the supplementary earth bonding. We have a shower-room where the (low-voltage) shower and two mirror mounted lamps are plugged into a 13A twin-socket in the loft. The earth from this socket is connected to one end of...