On Apr 3, 11:40*pm, "Brian Gaff" wrote:
If its one owns socket then who cares. something that was deemed safe
earlier is no less safe now, only the goal posts have been moved.
*I have a t least three sockets in my kitchen very close to the sink. the
reason of course is that the kitchen is so small there is no way to put them
anywhere else!

Brian


I wonder how many horrors lurk in British houses due to incompetant
fiddlers.

For instance when I moved in here I found that I have a socket
actually under the draining board, the cable to which is just run
through the back of the kitchen cabinets under the sink and is not
even clipped to the wall.

The real horror for me though, was the switchfuse unit which was only
being used to join two cables (probably had a use previously), under
the combi boiler, behind the gas pipe with no back box and not screwed
to the wall (so just hanging on its cables).

Or even worse, the mains cable for the transformer for the lights in
the pond, which was connected at the pond edge (i.e. outside) by a
choc block wrapped in insulating tape.

Philip