On Wed, 23 May 2007 21:08:42 +0100, Martin H wrote:

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?

Let's leave the araldite alone.

Either change the socket to an unswitched one or change the socket to a
FCU with 3A fuse.

You are not making a new/extension circuit so no notification required.
Part P always applies even when the work is not notifiable. Which means
the regs must be complied with.


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