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All I can say is I've lived in a country that allows power sockets in the bathrooms and I'm still here - this is how things should be. This country doesn't, so I have to assume I'm working with much lower levels of intelligence here and as such I'd prefer whichever moron ends up here to not burn my place down. Their life is secondary - consider it Darwinism. :D
Slum Lord (to the tune of Park Life)
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I've come to the view that it is partly an improvement, and partly a scheme to keep the professional bodies going. The electrician said they were now being made to install surge protectors, which are a one-time thing, and they've never been called out to replace them so the odds of a surge must be pretty minimal.
The thing that wound me up was reading that the fire service convinced the government to force consumer units to be made of metal rather than plastic because there had been too many fires where it hadn't been contained - and consumer units tend to be by the stairs/on a means of escape. The industry then moaned that they had a huge stock of plastic units and got an extension to use them up - which now means when people get the NICEIC done for renting or whatever they get made to install a metal one.
BTW, one tip for saving money is that you may not have to have the test done by a NIC registered electrician-there are other bodies (like NAPIT) which are cheaper to join so the tests end up being a bit cheaper, but are equivalent.
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I once went out to observe a callout for a Whirlpool technician to look at someone's washing machine. The chap had it in the bathroom, he had cut off the plug and spliced it into the mains, had literally just twisted the wires together and covered it in electrical tape. Needless to say the whirlpool tech refused to touch it and advised him to fit it somewhere correctly.
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How to give a british electrician a heart attack:
It's funny how people malfunction when they see I have a washing machine in the bathroom
(not with twisted wires)
jdsnape
ELbowloh
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Aha! Well what kind of landlord do you want to be? One who can point to a form and says “I complied with the law” when their tenant dies in a fire, or one whose tenant doesn’t die in a fire.
If I were a landlord I would want to work on the basis that all people are idiots and that includes my tenants and it would therefore need to be as safe as poss.