UK Part P Electrical (Does anyone know the score)

I am having a shower fitted and after it has to be tested but from what I
gather there is now a £200 charge for testing due to this part p thing
thats been introduced.
Is there an electrician who can explain this to me. It seems an expensive
test.
I also gather that to have work carried out in your home, ie a socket
moving or a new light etc, has to be tested in the same way. Is this
correct or am I panicing over nothing?
Cheers guys

 

You are correct. It's all down to the litigious society we live in, and
amateur "electricians" who do things like wiring light switches into the
neutral feed, and using 1.5mm sq cable for cookers etc etc.

 

Electrical safety (Part P)
http://www.odpm.gov.uk/stellent/groups/odpm_buildreg/documents/divisionhomepage/br0054.hcsp

Shorter link:
http://makeashorterlink.com/?F5F524FEA


Revisions following introduction of part p (electrical safety) on 1 January 2005
http://www.odpm.gov.uk/stellent/groups/odpm_buildreg/documents/page/odpm_breg_033675.hcsp

Shorter link:
http://makeashorterlink.com/?Q10621FEA

 

yes cara, it`s all part of the new order of the `it`s gonna costya state`
that we live in, we`ll end up having to get a permit (you`ll have to pay for
it !!!) to buy toilet paper, then pay again to flush the bl**dy toilet. Roll
on the revolution. best wishes..J

 

I still can't get over the idea of you guys paying a licence fee for
*televisions*. Anywhere else, this *alone* would have blood flowing in
the streets.

 

In <4268017c$0$30916$>,
trout took 28 lines to utter:

The TV license is a bit of an anachronism, but at least UK viewers have
a few channels that we can watch without commercial breaks -- ruining
our viewing pleasure -- every two minutes; that is SO annoying.

 

That's what the remote control is for. Without commercial breaks,
how would you know what other crap is on the *other* two hundred
channels of crap?

 

That's what TV listings in your daily/weekly/monthly are for, isn't it?

 

I have a vague recollection of these things from the distant past.

 

This barbarous society abolished licence fees for televisions in the
late nineties of the previous century. The Bread and Circuses act now
makes it perfectly legal to buy cannabis products in so called "coffee
shops" and to smoke "joints" or "reefers" in public.

Growing cannabis however and supplying these "coffee shops" is illegal,
however. Did I hear you mumbling something about double standards ?

Due to increasing "European" pressure, our police are now using
helicopters equipped with IR devices to fight illegal production of
cannabis. There's a *lot* of money to be made in that business.

Authorities have issued health warnings: due to increasing efficiency in
production methods, the THC levels in cannabis are rising.

Of course a lot of our "Nederwiet" is illegally exported to our European
neighbors west of us. They need the stuff; television licenses make
their life horrible. I'll admit though that BBC One and Two are
wonderful. No commercials ....

 

In <181qsfs2x0341$>,
Rob K took 31 lines to utter:

That (BBC) is the SOLE purpose of the license, though I think the
fee should be collected more efficiently, like direct taxation. Those
who cry: "but I don't own a TV", should remember that a license is
required for owning a TV, VCR, set top box, DVD recorder, PC with
TV card etc. -- I doubt that there is a single family that doesn't
come into this category, somewhere.

 

I agree. Here in the Netherlands, that's exactly the way it's done now.

The question if a governement acts wisely in allocating a part of tax
revenues to some sort of "public" television is open for debate.
Tax-payers may very well argue that such spending is no longer
necessary.

That said, IMHO the BBC does a good job: it has the in-depth news
coverage I'd very much like to see here. Add a bit of Blackadder and hey
presto ...

 

Over here we have public television that is actually quite good - during
the times they're begging for money. If there's a good show on PBS, it
must be fund-raising time.

 

Yeah; at least you can tape a regular show, and get the timing down
pretty well for FFing through the commercials. But during PBS pledge
drives, you have to tape six hours to watch two old episodes of "Red
Dwarf".