Charging parked vehicles

Well I remember that is what parking meters used to do, charge parked vehicles :)

The other problem is that unless you find someone 'old school', the electrician who fits your circuit is much more concerned about getting to the next job / pub / football / mistress than actually doing a decent job.

I'd wager I'm more intelligent than most electricians and I certainly have a much greater interest in the quality of the wiring behind the switch my daughter presses. There's not much special kit required to do the work and it's all entirely logical for someone with a bit of nouse (or an engineering degree).

I've had good work done by tradesmen, but mostly it's been absolutely crud. I don't care what the law is - nobody is going to tell me I have to pay some feckless teenager to do a job worse than I could.

Reminds me of the situation in Australia, where it is impossible to buy a 4-way extension with more than 1 metre of cable, and you can't rewire them. Thus people daisychain them round the house! You can also have a normal plug socket next to the bath, as long as it's professionally fitted...

In news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com, Tim Hobbs blithered:

I have an Engineering degree, a relevent one at that, but I'm not qualified to do it!

The princile idea behind it is to avoid the PFY from doing it!

(snip)

Not correct. I bought a five metre one recently and saw ten and fifteen metre ones in the same display.

Won't argue about that!

No. Not allowed under current wiring rules - but I won't argue that there are a few about. JD

In article , beamendsltd writes

D'oh! It's our sweet reasonable friends in the EU. Remember, the ones who think a pictogram of a running man is a sensible symbol for a fire exit (incidentally, I think even the Japanese have the word 'exit'' on their signs), and that all fire extinguishers should be painted red irrespective of contents.

The sooner we get the EU out of the UK the better (and start a sensible cull of bureaucrats).

Regards,

Simonm.