Not correct. A householder can do his own gas work downstream of the gas meter in his own personal private property (not a property that he then rents out). However, if anything goes wrong he would have to prove that he was competent to have carried out the gas works. Watching endless YouTube videos does not prove competency!
Exactly. One can do the basic core training off one's own bat (and pay the course fees) which would produce a certificate on satisfactory completion. However if you are rewarded in any way whatsoever for carrying out gas works for others then you must be GasSafe registered which can only be done if you have completed and passed the training appertaining to the works you are carrying out (core plus elements e.g. if you have trained to work on gas boilers you cannot work on gas cookers unless trained to do so).
Looks like relay has burned out and now is permanently switched on. Should be repairable by replacing that white rectangle to a new one. Or better yet to replace them all, not to have more problems soon again.
I was not there so do not know what was said, it was also about twenty years ago. I would guess that they would have repaired or replaced it if she had a receipt from "bodge it and run electrical" but she had nothing obviously. I would assume that the manufactures guarantee specified the qualifications or they could decide who a competent person was. She may have won if she had paid for someone to inspect the cooker to find out the cause of the fault and confirm that it was nothing to do with my brothers wiring.
Why is the fuse in the neutral line ?
No, it is illegal and you must be registered gas safe.
Don't you have a fuse in every mains socket plug?
Yes but in the live line, now if it fuses there is no live to the circuit. If it is in the neutral and fuses then you still have live supply to ground.
This might be because in the UK one of the domestic supply types is called PME, it is where the supplier uses the neutral to the property to provide the means of earthing and this causes further potential issues later on. It also means only the live will be at a potential above ground.
I think you will find that The Gas Safety (Installation & Use) Regulations 1998 state:
So called "Smart Phones" do have some use with Camera tech! lol Always gives you something to look back on when you make a ****oo and it goes Phuuuuuuuut with lot's of smoke!
Came across that causes havoc with testers!
Chicken and the egg ! To be classed as competant to work on gas you must be registered with gas safe to prove competancy, when I did gas it was Corgi .
Thanks for that very thorough explanation! I'll take a print copy off and put it in the file.
When you have a shortage of skilled labour you start to fumble around in the bottom of the barrel. This is the modern way, get a degree in something and you can now do any job, it has been a total disaster for the UK ever since we lost our technical colleges and shoved every Tom Dick and Harry into university without thinking of future needs. This is one reason why we now have such a problem with nurse shortages, a nurse does not need a degree because the main requirement is a person who is compassionate and cares about people, that person can then be trained without needing to incur huge debts going through university. A lot of the problem has been driven by greed, look at property developers who have pushed quality into the gutter and deskilled the building industry to maximise profits, did not want skilled electricians because they are expensive and so now we have the watered down domestic electrician. Plumbing has also gone the same way, taking out the skills of pipe bending and soldering by using plastic pipe and pushfit connectors so now they can employ monkeys. When you look at the auto industry that has also gone down the money spining route, now we have a system failure light that allows a garage to charge you just to perform the diagnostic's and give you a rough idea of the possible fault without any Certainty of a first time fix, a nice open ended income. Diesels used to be so basic and run for hundreds of thousands of miles with nothing more than a single wire to the injection pump, all gone and now more complicated than the petrol version with a programable control system that determines everything, now just a single bad connection can bring the engine to a halt and an expensive repair bill. Then for more stupdity, the rise of the three cylinder engine that has a lifespan along the lines of a chocolate bar left out in the sun, my local garage see's many with head failure and struggling to reach the 100K mile mark.
You could buy a Ninja which cooks them great but downside is that you cannot get the quantity and so a case of why you need to keep the old fashioned oven.
and here lies the Air Fryer conundrum...we've had a Foodie 15 in 1 for a week now and already talking about getting a second one for stuff we can't do in the Foodie. To cover all eventualities (including mince pies) we would also need a dual fryer and a grill fryer/mini oven! This really does bring payback into question, especially if its Ninja stuff. We've agreed to hold our eagerness in check to see if additions are really necessary and don't start me on 'accessories'...
