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MattStolton
Old Croc Joined: 04 September 2010 Location: Walthamstow Status: Offline Points: 4234 |
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Try buying anything "Mains Gas" from anywhere reputable, without a Gas Safe certificate. Screwfix will not serve you. Plenty of backstreet/ebay will, but do you want to sling a Chinese/ebay dodgey bayonet connector pipe to your cooker? Perhaps sparky stuff should follow, but no where does it say that you have to be qualified to spark, just "skilled". To work on Gas, you have to be qualified and skilled. Back in the day of Corgi, a registered/qualified person, who had any doubt about the safety of your Gas installation, could turn off your Gas from the street/meter. Sparkys have never had the same authority. Stopping purchase of 13A plugs is stretching it a bit far, beyond the remit of the "installation". Perhaps better education would be more useful? My GCSE Physics had an assessed practical which involved correctly wiring a 13A plug. Kind of useful. We should also encourage a little bit of Darwinism, but proper installations are doing too good a job of stopping harm to life and property |
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Matt Stolton - Technical Director (!!!) - Wilding Sound Ltd
"Sparkius metiretur vestra" - "Meter Your Mains" |
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Danielr
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A part of the reason that I was curious as to how such a thing would be policed is precisely because of the way the gas safe schemes are (I can buy anything from big name "high street" suppliers.) I can buy as many gas flues as I like. - it is simply illegal for me to fit them. plenty of people buy boilers from B&Q, it's just illegal to fit the gas part of them (and the exhaust flue.) given pubs and clubs have a hard enough time restricting alcohol, when most forms of government ID are difficult to forge, I wonder about the practicalities of policing a qualification that was an e-certificate. GasSafe is policed on trust and hefty fines/jail time. I somehow don't think that many people here are going to be happy if that happens to electrical stuff... It is doubtful that the multiple choice test that boxes-r-blue suggested would be the "standard" and there are not a lot of "current" qualifications that would immediately slide into place. so you'll end up with either a power grab by a trade body, (like NICEIC) and the cost of C&G that they endorse going up. or you'll end up with the power being placed in the hands of the IET... who are bound to set EngTech and the minimum level... because it at least requires registration, and as it is a professional registration you can be struck off etc. How many here can afford to pay a qualified registered engineer to go to the shops for them? I also remember the wiring a plug lesson school - and agree better education is the answer. |
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Boxes-R-Blue
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Just read one word (suitable for this forum) PLONKER I am sorry I forget more about electrical engineering between his post and his than he ( assuming bloke, most birds are more clued up) than he can ever hope to know!
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Kinda Been there, Kinda done that, YOU COULDN'T handle my bar bill!
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