Just to pick up on your post, we calculate the hell out of our cable runs, we fit downlighters into nice open spaces, then ,as you say , council dishes out grants and its all buried in 10 ft of lagging . I pity the sparks in the future who have to dig down to rewire throough that carp!!!!
On your other points (not pints) (6mm bonding etc) we tend to forget that once the 16th edit. was the ultimate in superior installations and before that it was the 15th edit. and before that the 14th . all handed down to us from Mount Olympus on tablets of stone , " This is the 14 th edition (Metric) and thou shalt call it the dog's gonads , thou shalt work to no other edition than this, the word of the IEE is upon you .
Cable thou shalt bury in the walls may be just below the surface, supplimentary bonding is an abomination and RCDs shall not darken your door for they are unclean . Thou shalt protect from overload with a thin piece of wire that may eventually melt .
Your Consumer unit shall be called a fuseboard , its name shall be Wylex, and its construction shall be wooden.
Listen not to those who talk of being registered , or being assessed as competent , for they are false gods and , lo, these things will never come to pass .
Be in fear of the future ,when the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse shall come , for they shall be called Admin ,Apache , Steptoe and Brian and now I fear I have lost all grip on reality and have forgotten what the OP was about . :C
Oh yes I remember , the multitudes were hungry so a disciple was sent for Fish and Chips 5000 times ( 2000 with salt and vinegar, 1000 just salt, 1999 just vinegar, and 1 with brown sauce !!!! ) That was probably Apache ,awkward sod . :coat
