OT - British Gas - electric rip off

You've got to be CORGI registered to plug in the bayonet connector for a gas cooker these days...

It's getting daft.

I think it was the "big six-wheeler scarlet painted London Transport diesel-engined 97 horsepower omniBUS" that sparked my interest in big diesels.

Hold very tight please - ting-ting!

On or around Tue, 30 Sep 2008 23:07:19 +0100, steve enlightened us thusly:

but the British control freaks^W^W government seem to have a unique knack for taking anything stupid that the EU propose, enforcing it to the letter and then gilding the lily with extra stuff on top.

It's not only CORGI and prat P regulations and so on, it's happening all over. Meanwhile other EU countries just ignore stuff - not long ago, IIRC, Italy hadn't implemented milk quotas, which we've had for years, even decades.

Heating "Engineer" What qualifies one to be such an engineer, Is he perhaps not better described as a Heating "Installer"? As in CORGI?

Corgi? Sounds like the remains of an Italian apple! ;-)

Nah, its a sawn off Welsh dawg!

To get on the Electrical Installation course you need a level 3 qualification, so either 'Engineering Technician' or 'Technician Engineer' (they mean different things, but I can't honestly remember which is which) would be the correct term.

So are Series one land rovers but they still do the job - just to come vaguely on topic:)

Rip off. Others have posted more realistic prices for a CU replacement but...

It sounds like a rather old installation. I'd be tempted to look at havi= ng the place rewired or at least fully inspected and tested before just replacing the CU. I'm not a great one for rewiring a place that is done = in PVC just because it's 30+ years old though. If there was a hint of rubbe= r, lead, paper or cotton insulated cable being about that is a different matter.

Probably but I don't like the new regs that pretty much enforce the use = of a whole house RCD or (expensive) RCBOs. Sockets on RCD protection but no= t fixed appliances like the oven/cooker, heating, immersion heater, lighti= ng etc.

Depends modern trips have a habit of tripping when a bulb goes phutt, no= t good to be plunged into darkness. A 5A rewireable fuse is rarely, if eve= r, taken out by a blub going pop.

Is the right answer. ("Cor gi" is Welsh for 'dwarf dog'.)

Is that a typo, or do you call them 'blubs' too?

I call them "lamps" (but then that's just a habit from work)!

Cheers

Peter

Typo.

"Lamps" are the housing a "bubble" (glass bit with hot wire or arc inside) goes in, both combined is a "luminaire". B-)

Shame. 'Blubs' is great.

On or around Thu, 2 Oct 2008 06:54:17 +0100, "Rich B" enlightened us thusly:

I call the strip ones flourescents. and yes, blubs.

Ditto

Should we form a slef-help group?

Shouldn't that be a slef-hlep group? B-)

I'm trying to control it, not make it worse :-)