Electric shower repair…. Am I breaking the law?

[whiskeyjack6058]

A good customer of mine has asked me if I could repair her Triton T80SI Electric shower.
It’s the same as mine and I know its very simple.
The fault is no water going through so I’m huessing at a solenoid valve perhaps.
The has a modern consumer unit with MCBs on it and the wiring is only a few years old.
I’m going out on Thursday AM to investigate.
Am I breaking the law with the modern part P thing?

Regards,

Rob.

[admin]

Re: Electric shower repair…. Am I breaking the law?

Hi

Part P is for new installations and NOT repairs so no you wont get involved with part P.

Bryan

[Phidom]

Re: Electric shower repair…. Am I breaking the law?

Even if you were taking out a shower and fitting a new one I don’t think you need worry about Part P unless for example you needed to take out an old 6mm supply cable and replace it with 10mm for a higher wattage shower. Luckily we don’t have Part P in Scotland so I can still legally do most wiring jobs.

[simonb]

Re: Electric shower repair…. Am I breaking the law?

Im glad someone brought up the legal side of home electrical repairs im aware of the law that states any person who carry’s out electical work bust be competant to do so, now i know as far as also after every job done earth loop and insulation must be done, whilst working for british gas we were told to fill in a minor works certificate after every job.

can anyone clairfy the do’s and donts with home electrical work not pat testing.especially with the current climate its all to tempting to take up any offers of other work.

[maltheviking]

Re: Electric shower repair…. Am I breaking the law?

simonb wrote:
One clairfy the do’s and donts with home electrical work not pat testing.especially with the current climate its all to tempting to take up any offers of other work.

You need to have taken or be converse with the relevent testing requirements, was BS7671 not sure what it is now cos the regs. are changing 😕 Filling the relevent paperwork in is the most complicated side of it

Try posting a question on the Institute Of Electrical Engineers web site http://www.iee.org

[PGS]

Re: Electric shower repair…. Am I breaking the law?

Have a good luck at the earth bonding on sink and under bath to give you an indicator of installation, ie if it aint bonded ,dont touch it.

[maltheviking]

Re: Electric shower repair…. Am I breaking the law?

PGS wrote:Have a good luck at the earth bonding on sink and under bath to give you an indicator of installation, ie if it aint bonded ,dont touch it.

You won’t believe this but bonding is not a requirement on sinks, 😕 bathrooms have to everything bonded including the pull switch, oh you can now install domestic appliances in bathrooms 😯

[Phidom]

Re: Electric shower repair…. Am I breaking the law?

Yes, all the pipes in my bathroom are plastic but I’m still not required to earth bond the steel bath 😕

[whiskeyjack6058]

Re: Electric shower repair…. Am I breaking the law?

Well, I went on this shower, it was a valve solenoid that was O/C but I decided to leave it alone as the main valve was leaking and had been for some time. I advised her what was wrong and told her that I couldn’t go any further with it. I also checked out my liabilities insurance and found out that I wansn’t covered.

Rob.

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