"Peter" wrote in message
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Hi
I know that electrical work should be carried out by a "competent person"
and I count myself as being competent though I am not a qualified
electrician
.
However how would an insurance company treat work carried out in my home by
myself?
If there was a fire or person electrocuted even if not directly from the
work that I had done but would the fact that I had done some work count
against me? Would the insurance company still cover a claim?

What about doing some work for a friend - putting in an extra socket,
unpaid. I would be concerned that if he had an electrical fault unrelated to
the socket that I had put in his insurance company would refuse to consider
a claim because I had made an alteration.

How do insurance companies treat DIY for yourself or a friend?

Regards
Peter



If it's a fire caused by an electrical fault and the fire investigator found that it
was your work that had caused it, how would you feel ? Are you covered by liabilities
insurance for doing this type or similar work ? If the fire investigator found that
the fire started in a totally different room from where you had been working, but that
the work you carried out on the circuit caused the overload because of you didn't know
that the circuit couldn't take the load you applied to it, how would you feel ?

Would your friend find it in his heart to forgive you because you were trying to help
out ? Would your family say "It's OK, you weren't to know" ?

Maybe that's why the government are trying to introduce new legislation to make it law
that any work be certificated by a qualified fully trained person, and are trying to
stop the rot of the DIYer on this type work. It is dangerous to play around with
electrical, gas and building installations if you don't know what and how things work
on them.


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