We kind have just had some stress in our household, we need a shower in the small washroom, so we can gut the main bathroom and have it refitted (it needs it lol), without stinking while its being done, lol, we already have a shower cubeicle, but no shower and its just been used as a cupboard for cleaning stuff, bog rolls and boxes of tissues and the like until now, we are having an electric shower and the main bathroom is going to have a pumped shower when it is done.
Anyway, my dad was going to DIY it, using the circuit that feeds current leccy shower and move that feed to the small shower room, now that circuit is technically undersized (our house is the house of DIY bodges), and to do the job properly would need a new circuit running in, and thats before you even get to the fact that its notifiable under part P of the building regs, and we don't have the test equipment to test it properly, so I advised that an electrician be called in to do the job, my mum agreed with me, that we might as well have it done properly, but my dad got quite annoyed, cos he wanted to DIY it, then he got quite angry at my mum asking her if she doesn't trust anything he does, etc.
It might sound harsh, but I know he has plenty of money and can afford it, so why cut corners when its potentially safety you are cutting corners on...
Anyway, my mum has got a self employed electrician that I know won't rip them off to come and quote tommorow
I need a drink...
Anyway, my dad was going to DIY it, using the circuit that feeds current leccy shower and move that feed to the small shower room, now that circuit is technically undersized (our house is the house of DIY bodges), and to do the job properly would need a new circuit running in, and thats before you even get to the fact that its notifiable under part P of the building regs, and we don't have the test equipment to test it properly, so I advised that an electrician be called in to do the job, my mum agreed with me, that we might as well have it done properly, but my dad got quite annoyed, cos he wanted to DIY it, then he got quite angry at my mum asking her if she doesn't trust anything he does, etc.
It might sound harsh, but I know he has plenty of money and can afford it, so why cut corners when its potentially safety you are cutting corners on...
Anyway, my mum has got a self employed electrician that I know won't rip them off to come and quote tommorow
I need a drink...
) there is quite a lot of things that a DIYer might not even know the existance of and will be unaware of the importance of*, its weird, with electrics the more you know about them, the more you become reserved about what you can and can't tackle, if that makes sense