Aircon repair

[Japster]

So the people who make the cans that halfords sell will be basically put out of business in this country? Bloody ludicrous. What next? illegal to flush toilet paper incase it chokes a sewer rat?

[steve_earwig]

Changing a fuse or fitting a plug without the necessary accreditation will have a maximum fine of £2,000 and/or 6 months in prison.
A new telly will need to be installed by a registered engineer with relevant C&G qualifications.
A new minimum viewing distance will come into force for televisions, consisting of 6 times the diagonal screen size.
A three-day course will be required to change a lightbulb.
Toasters will be banned.
A new C&G course "Certificate in Cleaning Fridges" will be created.
God Save the Queen will only be sung in registered public venues licensed for such purpose.
The Cross of St. George will be replaced by a green swastika.
Carving knives will be made out of rubber.
People who work with children under the age of 14 will wear blindfolds and boxing gloves.

[Welly]

As far as I am aware, it's kinda ok to work on the electrics and gas in your own home - because you own the place and you've only yourself to blame if you cock it up in a way. Common sense would hopefully prevail and in the event of any claim or investigation they would have the work inspected for soundness. I happen to do a very good job with electrics to the same (or higher) standard as a professional because I take my time and I'm not 'on a price mate' in fact one of my neighbours had to remove a section of twin and earth which had been slowly arcing and scortching near a light fitting (all fitted by the build electricians).

I live in a new house built in 2003 and have changed and added-to a lot of the electrical wiring and am soon to carry out a gas alteration. Heck, when I replaced the electric oven I noticed that the fitted gas hob was leaking gas (soap test) and that was the gas that the f*cking registered plumber fitted so I fixed HIS bloody leak!! (I always thought i could smell gas sometimes). I won't even start about the 6 or 8 water leaks in the first two weeks

Oh, and stevie - I'm going to take a drive to Jastrebarko tomorrow and find a dark-coloured 406 estate (and a load of Golden Retards) and take your address, then I shall report you to BT for stealing all that copy paper - see, it's easy really

[highlander]

BT would take 6 to 12 months to even raise an eyebrow about stolen copier paper.

Hell, when I worked on a service center for them, we discovered "questionable material" on an employee's computer (in his "My Pictures" folder in his own Windows 2000 roaming profile, no less) featuring the elderly performing some rather bizarre acts that contravened the company's acceptable use policy.

More than a year later, when I left, that employee was still working there, while the company "made investigations".

Yet not long before that, someone else accidentally left his phone off mute while speaking to his manager about a customer he was particularly exasperated with, mentioned to his manager that the customer was "a w**ker". He was out the door that afternoon. Thus proving that some people are dispensable, and others are bloody bulletproof. Bureaucracy!

[mjb]

As far as I am aware, it's kinda ok to work on the electrics and gas in your own home

Not sure about gas, but I know it is ok to work on your home electrical stuff although you must get your work inspected afterwards. I believe insurance policies nowadays don't cover unapproved electrical work.

[Welly]

Imagine buying a double socket from B&Q, fitting it (in place of a single one for safety's sake to reduce socket adaptors etc), and I have done many of these, and on completion of the work having to get an electrician in to test it - presumably keeping the power OFF until he comes around - like in two weeks time

Absolutely crazy

Friends of ours moved into a new house a couple of years ago and could smell gas, I happened to be there so had a look and sure enough the cooker hose connection was leaking. I had some GAS PTFE tape at home so nipped back and fixed it (I stopped the leak and did a soap test). Afterwards I did feel a bit funny about it but hey, I'd fixed it

The crazy thing is, if they'd have called British Gas they would just turn the gas off (it was January ) then they'd have to get a gas fitter to fix the problem, test the whole installation, check the flues and any other likely breaches of the regs and then hopefully set the system to work again.....mucho £££££££'s later

[mjb]

Imagine buying a double socket from B&Q, fitting it (in place of a single one for safety's sake to reduce socket adaptors etc), and I have done many of these, and on completion of the work having to get an electrician in to test it - presumably keeping the power OFF until he comes around - like in two weeks time

Absolutely crazy

The light switch in my kitchen died the other day. Wonder how long it's going to take the estate agents to get back to me...

[steve_earwig]

Oh, and stevie - I'm going to take a drive to Jastrebarko tomorrow and find a dark-coloured 406 estate (and a load of Golden Retards) and take your address, then I shall report you to BT for stealing all that copy paper - see, it's easy really

Ok, when you get off the motorway, go through the tolls, follow the road up and look for a big place on the left called "Princess" (conference/wedding/piss-up centre), then after that there's a place called "Pavin" (agricultural shop oo-arrr) and you want to turn down the road just before that. Follow it down, it's a sharp right-hander at the bottom so slow right down or you'll end up in a ditch. About 50 meters up is a small turning on the left again, it's too small for 2 cars to pass so look down it first to make sure it's clear (Hey, you just avoided not one but two manky level crossings). At the end of that turn left. Keep going and look for a big ugly building on the left with "DVD Cvetković" written on it (it's the fire house, the do not lend videos ). Turn left immediately after that and park - you've arrived. Just a few problems though, the reason the copy paper was in the van was I gave it back. Oh, and I'll be in Repišće fitting a ceiling fan You could always play with the dogs though.

[Welly]

Ok, fair do's....

But remember, I'm watching you