ef37a wrote: ↑Thu Jan 20, 2022 12:02 pm
I agree with Hugh, depends on the person and the experience they can prove.
In my case I think 45 years or so fixing TVs, radios, audio and microwaves should prove ability. Then I was working on live chassis for a guitar amp company past my retirement age. I hope they would give me a glowing reccy!
I would not however be 'qualified' to do certain works to my house wiring*, the regulations are very stringent. I HAVE of course! Fitted the odd extra 13A outlet. Some years ago I had to replace a switch unit in the meter cupboard so I was working with one live wire straight out of the company fuse. Nitrile gloves, insulated pliers and ensured that nothing 'earthed' was anywhere near me. Very stressful but in practice just getting one thick wire in a terminal block and screwing it tight. Some people do that every day!
The 'kids' will get the bungalow (or the local council? ) so they can sort out the rewire and the accumulation of 53 years of electronic junk.
*Who here has all the wiring qualifications?
Dave.
If I can see and correct faults that on paid work then I think I'm OK to do some work myself, Sparkies on YT like to complain about DIYers but some trained individuals are just as bad as a bad DIYer so going with a professional means nothing.
For example we are getting my Grans old house ready to sell and as a good few of the switches/sockets are probably original (1960's) I thought it would be a good idea to replace everything so it's modern and it matches, that's light switches, sockets, the cooker switch and the various fused outlets, all using the cheap but acceptable Crabtree Capitol range.
It also showed up the long defunct way the sockets were wired in which the downstairs sockets (excluding the kitchen which was rewired in the 80's) are spurs from sockets upstairs, now originally there would have been probably only 3 sockets in the living and dining rooms so it saved some effort.
Unfortunatly people who have added sockets have not realised this and have put extra sockets in where the regulations prohibit it (only one double or one single socket is allowed on a spur) and so as I have been replacing sockets I've been bypassing and blanking off sockets as necessary.
The new owner will probably get it rewired anyway as most of the wiring is probably original (though all PVC and I've seen no degraded cables behind and acessory) and it's all wire fuses with no RCD plus the wiring to the garage also really needs to go on it's own breaker, but rewiring was not something I fancied!
