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Just the way the industry is nowadays, too many complete morons pretending to be electricians because they have done a course. Eternal race tot the bottom, undercutting everywhere and no-one with any experience doing jobs they are clearly not cut out for. Leave them to it, I only do domestic...

Yep, as suspected, making it class 2. Technically it was class 2. It's not great though.

I have seen equipment wire double insulated with sheaths coloured like this. Makes assembly easier. This may or may not be that.

Simplest way to do that is use fibre.

Domestic s more knackering IMO. Nowadays it is also soul destroying.

It can still be double insulated even if it is conductive. Probably says something in the instructions about the correct way to wire it up and maintain the class 2 rating, or rather following the instructions by default complies with the original classification.

Do you want some FS2s? I for some reason have a few boxes of them.

It is if you wrap it around all the live wires and terminals.

How much more detail are you expecting/what do you want to know?

Spammers have no concept of time.

But legally (which was what I was basing my answer around) they don't really apply to DIY. I'm not entirely convinced they apply to DIY at all, legally or otherwise.

I've spent the last few years living between 2 houses, 150 miles apart. Remembering to take house keys with you when you leave is a challenge once you have spent several days/weeks somewhere else. When I was an apprentice I used to get to work on a Monday morning, open the boot of my car and...

No. To do it correctly you should do all the required test before and after the works and issue the relevant certificates. Legally you can do whatever you like, you don't even legally need to do it correctly (assuming you are a homeowner/DIYer and this isn't paid work).

That's completely different though. I would do that (and have done it plenty of times with other contractors). I would also do that with a customer if I had a say in what it was I was buying. Generally though domestic customers say they want to supply materials because they reckon it will be...

Is that in Wales?

You all sound incompetent, I never do things like this. :innocent

I wouldn't really entertain doing it on a fixed price if the customer was supplying materials regardless of the size of it. Obviously they are thinking they are going to be able to save a few quid by giving you cheap tat to fit, that takes twice as long to fit as decent kit so my price would be...

I've got a feeling I'm not the sort of person the OP would give the job to if that s the case! Having said that, it is not unknown for me to sell people on the advantages of a new panel once I am asked to service some random old thing. I'm not adverse to servicing old alarms, but in this...

Every time I have connected a Boge compressor up with incorrect rotation it has fired but made a right old squealing, suggesting the panel just closes the contactor regardless.