What am I legally allowed to do?

What am I legally allowed to do?

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ColinM50

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Monday 6th July 2015
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I'm a pretty good DIY'er and have refurbed a couple of my own BTL's over the years. Installed heating, kitchens and bathrooms and replumbed, rewired plugs and extended circuits, put in new windows etc etc all to high standards. Only thing I've not done is make gas connections but I've installed gas boilers and all the plumbing, just left the actual gas bit to a CORGI bloke.

A good friend of mine has bought a property that he's going to convert to offices and has asked me if I want to do the electrics. He wants waist high trunking round all the rooms so he can have desks and PC's against the wall. Though I'm sure I could do it, am I allowed to? It'll probably also need a new consumer unit spurred into the existing. Can I legally do that? I'll research cable sizes and details, but it's the question of liability that's concerning me.

Any ideas would be much appreciated. But please don't tell me to leave it to a feshnal I can do with the workeek

ColinM50

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2,631 posts

176 months

Monday 6th July 2015
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Yes, that's kind of what I thought. So if I run new cabling into a new consumer unit and let MrpartP do the rest, that'd be OK?