Owain wrote:

Legally you could dig up the 3-phase supply in the street and tap
into
it with nails, as suppliers works are outside the provisions of the
IEE
Regs, let alone Part Pee, but I don't recommend it.

No doubt its been done... never heard it called legal before though.


I don't know about others, but I'd be happier encouraging someone to
break the law than do something stupid. Why not do a proper job and
just
forget exactly when it was done?

As an easy way to cut through all the twaddlery, this seems set to
become the standard advice now.