In article , Kevin
Chambers writes
I've been (mostly) reading this group for over a year whilst
renovating my house and during that time have got some usefull
information from it.

However, it has struck me recently that a lot of people who post
here have an incredibly self righteous outlook, considering this is a
DIY forum. Particularly following the post on legality of electrical
wiring it was quite depressing how many of the replies took the stance
that either you "shouldn't do it without a qualification" or "you
can't legally do it without a qualification, and maybee that's OK".

It's not self righteous, it is unfortunately the way you have to think
in our increasingly litigious society (how do you spell that?).

You can carry on d-i-y-ing as much as you want, but you need to think
about the possible consequences of what you do, and the post you
reference above was all about that. It is not good advice to say "carry
on regardless" when there might be a liability claim waiting for you
round the next corner.
--
Tim Mitchell
not qualified in any DIY related subject