irongarment:

sparkz25:

 

irongarment:

gregmcc:

 

 

 

Frankly, electrical work is not hard. Unfortunately, electricians have a legal monopoly on providing electrical wiring services. I'm sure most of them do a decent job, but they are as lazy and prone to taking short cuts or making mistakes as anyone else.

 

 

 

Domestic electrical work is easy and the majority of non-electricians think that power points and light switches is as had as it gets, The reality is that legal monopoly is there for a reason and the big picture just is not seen or understood by the average person who isn't an electrician.

 

 

 

Take a typical domestic house, wiring up power points is easy, but what size cable should you use, what is the maximum distance you can run the cable before moving up a size, what kind of circuit breaker should you use and why? What kind of test results should you expect when your new power point is up and running?

 

 

 

There is way more to it than twisting some wires into a power outlet......

 

 

 

Well that's five points to bear in mind. None of them particularly difficult to figure out, so I wouldn't count that as 'way more'.

 

 

 

sounds like @irongarment is one of these do it all wire up your house in 1mm, and a strip 20mm of cable and jam it in the hole with no twisting or doubling over, thats why you wont make a sparky and no one would sign your stuff off, I Dont sign any one elses work off and i stipulate where my work finishes on the COC.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Feel free to think what you like. Interesting that electricians get all huffy when someone criticises another of their profession.

I think you may have missed the point here

I'm not taking offense that you're saying someone did something wrong, I'm saying it doesnt make sense that you're letting them get away with it so they can carry on doing it elsewhere. 

I wasn't impressed with your tl;dr "it's easy anyone can do it" because this encourages people who think youtube is a good teacher to give it a go and kill or harm someone by either electrocuting them or burning their house down

As for calling ALL of us lazy because of your experience with one obvious numpty who, let's face it, you can't remember who they were, who says they're even an electrician? If there was a flipping the bird emoji on here this is where I'd use it because I know SO many sparkies who are not like that at all, including myself.