Want to change my old Fuse box

[ColJack]

sorry, didthathurt was on about PIR's which threw me..

thanks for clearing that up though.. since I don't do domestic I haven't bothered to bone up on part P since it didn't affect me yet.. I suppose it does now that i've bought a house..

I also thought it came in last April.. or was that just a re-working of it.?

when DID it come in then?

 

[dingbat]

Jan 1st 2005
First amendment 6th April 2006

 

[ColJack]

isn't that the right to bear arms?

fith is right to not incriminate yourself..
fourth is freedom of speach..
what's 2 and 3 then??

 

[didthathurt]

I think one of the things I was getting at was the bit about just wiring a plug socket into where it was cut and confirming that bit was, as I think we all suspected, a spur off a JB in the ring.

The PIR bit was that a non BCO appointed tester could only issue a PIR and not an Installation or Minor Works Certificate and could not legally carry out the Part P Building Control notification/registration process as they did not carry out the work. A PIOR tester would not know of the existence of the JB's unless the poster informed the tester - in which case this would be noted on the test certificate as a category 2 (probably,ie requires attention/improvement) and a category 4 (non 16th compliant) Observation/Reccomendation. If he did not notify the tester, then the PIR would implicitly exclude the JB's from its scope. Therefore (sorry it's taken so long to get here) even a PIR would leave the poster with un-registered notifiable work having taken place, carried out by him in contravention of Building Regs that he would have to disclose to a future purchaser and may be liable for problems arising from it in the future if he did not do so.