"Martin H" wrote in message
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I want to have a combi installed in my kitchen. Regards the electrical
mains feed, there is a single switched socket near where I want to
locate the boiler. I gather that switched sockets are against the
rules because they don't completely isolate the boiler. So how about
if I knock the protruding part of the switch off and Araldite over it
so that it is no longer a *switched* socket?
Failing that, there is also an old switched, fused outled which used
to be used for a small Baby Belling cooker. I could simply wire it in
to that. Would either of these options exempt me from filing a Part-P
notification to BCO?
Are you allowed to "repair" broken sockets in this position ?
If so, and the switch failed conveniently, then you could probably legally
replace with an unswitched socket.
Not sure if you'd need to keep the broken one to prove it ... normally I
throw away such things.
With luck, the guy fitting the boiler would not insist on having the history
of the house wiring proved to him, just that at the time of fitting it was
OK.
hth
Neil