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DO YOU HAVE A LOISENCE FOR THAT?
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>>2956110
Nigger you ever watch Clarkson's farm? That's not a comedy show.
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>>2956110
To be fair my neighbor died doing that.
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>>2956110
in my country
there is no gas lines and plumbing is just an insurrance requirement meaning its free for everyone to do and its only valid for jobs traceable back 5 years. but it can backfire if you flood the apartment building and you did a scetchy job yesterday, then the insurrance will sue you, win and claim everything you own and ever will make until their claim is repaid.
much the same for electrics as well only only there its required to be registered to install it by law, they still sell to anyone and the 5 year law still apply. grid company however has the authority to demand inspections, they are rare and far between. build it to spec, claim is 5 years or older even if you did it yesterday and they can only point out not-to-code faults.
same for insurrance here, if your connection burn down the house you really want to hang it on some registered electrican not yourself.
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>>2956110
When did ausfailia go so wrong?
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Is it actually illegal or is it like an insurance thing where if anything goes wrong it's automatically your full responsibility because you fucked around with it?
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Well, gas definitely should be illegal.
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>>2956189
shalom!
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>>2956175
It is probably illegal to do it for someone else's property for profit. You might be able to do it for your own and not worry about the liability as long a as you do it right. Just say you got the home like that

Australia is super fucked and you can't even buy the parts I hear. Probably Britain too
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>>2956110
fixed
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>>2956110
We have the same laws here. Luckily they give exceptions for small jobs. Also lucky is that all of my jobs happen to be small. And I find that even the big jobs are really just collections of small jobs. I don't change ten light switches, I change two five times.
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>>2956235
>try to sell house
>suddenly all your shitty unlicensed work comes to light
>have to knock thousands of yuropoor bux off the price because they have to redo all the work
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>>2956262
>be burger
>do whatever shoddy work you feel like
>be ready to flee west coast liberal utopia
>scrawl fer sail as is $1 million dollhairs cash on used paper plate
>line of perspective rubes instantly appears
>laughs at request for inspection
>still get over asking offers from mexican mafia cartels flipping houses
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>>2956208
>you can't even buy the parts I hear.
I tried to regas my car AC, but you can only buy like entire bottles worth and you need to present your LOISENCE to get them.
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>>2956324
keyboard cleaner and a can tapper isnt regulated
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>>2956208
>Probably Britain too
UK is a little weird, the actual law as written is very simple: you must be competent.
If you are doing something in a house, a home, the you have to abide by local building control which varies between places and it prohibitively expensive for common man while contractors trained under certain schemes are able to self certify for no cost. Rules also vary for detached vs e.g. shared housing where you risk others by what you fuck up.
But if you want to do electrical work in commercial or industrial property? Fill your boots. Along as nobody is injured by your work you will never be held to account for anything you do.
And if you have no qualifications, and your work kills someone, as long as you an prove in court that what you did was (atleast as safe) and competent (as the wiring regulations (a private standards organisations publication)) they can't touch you.
Nobody cares about plumbing its hardy difficult.
People are understandably touchy about gas.
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>>2956264
how's those boots taste?
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>>2956327
Wait, what's wrong with this?
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You aren't even allowed to open your window without a loicense in England, let alone DIY anything.
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>>2956540
snibby snabs :DDDD
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>>2956463
read it again tony
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>>295611
It's not drainage work, it's a simulation for educational purposes.
Yes I have a license.
It's an for anal sex toys, please just provide the product.

Say what you must when you must.
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>>2956562
Schnippen schnappen XDDDDDD
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>>2956174
People kept exploding shit doing bad gas work. There are people out there that can't work a wrench you better believe it.
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>>2956110
Nah its Bunnings way of announcing that you cant sue them for your own stupidity, that is all.
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>>2956540
So kids don't fall out?
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>>2956490
If it leaks you'll asplode, usually R290 setups are more robust than the flurohydros
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>>2956619
More likely some old house that he's not allowed to change the windows because some historical reason or something.

Op is retarded because in the image the window is clearly open.
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>>2956110
The plumbing fittings are for a pipe bomb. So I'm OK.
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>>2956110
What is "regulated drainage work"? Working on utility sewers?
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>>2956540
This is just insane illogical landlord shit. Because it goes against fire safety laws for HMO rental properties where windows have to be able to be used as fire escapes if they are near the ground. The top sash will be fully openable anyway so this is a complete shite.

I have friends Aussie friends here in Scotland who have fucking loopy ideas that they have to abide by the latest new build regulations in 19th century properties and update everything. Even getting quotes for sprinkler systems to install on top of ornate plasterwork in a conservation area. They always go crackers when they see I've been working on fireplaces, plumbing or wiring without certifications, despite the fact I'm fixing all the problems certified tradespeople have made. You guys are totally cucked in the head.
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>>2956640
It is for kids and burglars, makes insurers a bit more happy
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>>2956208
>>2956175

Not sure for plumbing but DIY is electrical is completely illegal if its more than extra low voltage (110v DC or 50v AC)
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>>2956262
in my state (shithole) you can sell a house 'as is' and it's buyer beware
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>>2957019
Work that involves publicly owned drains and sewers
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>>2958755
What is wrong with that? It sounds perfectly fine
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>>2956262
I have yet to see anyone give a shit about anything you said.

In the disclosure when it ask about work and repairs, you just have to put unknown, or put it off on the previous owner as I did.

the previous owner of our old house we moved out of was an electrician and he enclosed the carport, and the back patio of the house. he did all the work himself. no idea if he got permits, and we didn't look in to it.

I just wrote that all the addons of the house were done by the previous owner and I had no idea if it was permitted. I built the patio I added on to the back of the house. I got no permits. none of the prospective buyers gave a shit about it when we sold it.

same with my mother in laws house. her house had all sorts of work done on it, when she died we just put in the disclosure "unknown" on everything. it was on the market and sold in 3 days.

when we bought our previous house they disclosed the work they did but I don't remember if there was anything about whether the work had been permitted.

when we bought this house it was through some company that wrote unknown on all the questions in the disclosure because they bought it from the previous owner when his wife died.

I didn't worry about any unlicensed work. I was more concerned with how little repairs the previous owners did.

permits are a joke. the only people who get them are contractors. no one enforces city ordinance unless they get a complaint.

I had to move a shed because a karen in my neighborhood reported me when I had it installed. it was small enough that a permit was not needed, but I had to move it as it was too close to the house and brick walls. the thing that pissed me of is there were 2 sheds that could be seen from my backyard that were also not in compliance and the city guy ignored them. I did an informal survey on google earth and by driving around and found that EVERY shed in a 2 block radius violated city ordinance.
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>>2956324
Just use propane, dumbass. Imagine being so cucked that you'll only use the manufacturer's recommended fluids. Must be a yuro thing.
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>>2958918
>I had to move a shed because a karen in my neighborhood reported me
i have multiple unpermitted structures ive put up and only 1 neighbor i worry could make shit over them. but i have an ace in the hole. the access to his landlocked house is an easement across my place. ive hinted at the fact i have no qualms about keeping the driveway in good shape for nice neighbors but half jokingly mentioned i could make it something akin to mlk blvd in downtown badad if i wanted to
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>>2958924
You can’t “retract” an easement
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>>2959148
>You can’t “retract” an easement
no but you can rain bar it every 20 ft with a d8 cat and still be usda access road compliant
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>>2956110
>It is illegal for an unlicensed person to perform regulated gas, plumbing or drainage work.
>REGULATED
Dumb cunt
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>>2958918
>there were 2 sheds that could be seen from my backyard that were also not in compliance and the city guy ignored them.
did you point them out to him?
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>>2959340
nobody like a nark
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>>2959340
no because I'm not an asshole. not only is all the ones in my neighborhood out of compliance, but almost every single shed I have seen in my city since then.
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kek.
Did my own electrical, followed the book (NEC/NFPA 70). Still have to pay for an inspection (because insurance).
Sparky doing the inspection says just call if I want a job working for him.
MFW, get a job doing electrical.
Pic unrelated, but funny.
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>>2959385
>no because I'm not an asshole.
nah, you're just a cuck taking it up the ass from the city while literally everyone else gets away with what you did. you should demand they enforce their regulations equally.
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>>2956208
>>2956361
Afaik
>Gas
Registered engineers only
>Electrical
You can do it yourself but you're supposed to get it signed off by a qualified electrician for selling etc, but plenty people don't bother
>Plumbing and drainage
Literally no-one cares
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>>2959731
>Gas
>Registered engineers only
its just doped and threaded black iron or stupid simple flare nut shit
and it runs at sub 1 psi
its never mentioned but the leaks that go bang are usually around the meter where they bed the feed line in sand so the gas percolates into the stagnant basement
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>>2958769
nothing, but not all states in aus let you do that and some of the ones that do still require you to make disclosures (which makes a mockery of the concept of 'as is' and buyer beware)

i hate this country so much
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>>2956110
no you're right, let's just let any retard fuck around with gas lines or plumbing.
Explosions and sinkholes are what make life fun and full of little surprises!
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>>2956174
Labour movement is just another form of monopoly.
>you can't do X job unless you pay the Union to do it! we will OUTLAW not hiring Teamsters to do the work
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>>2959385
>no because I'm not an asshole
If they go off of complaints / reports, and you don't retaliate with your own, you are telling the karen "yes mommy please step on me harder".
Here's what you do: make reports for every single one in your area.
When the topic inevitably comes up, all you have to do is say something to the effect of "wow, I guess when karen reported my shed the other day the inspector noticed all of the others. what a bummer".
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>>2956235
based
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>>2958750
This anon is talking out of their arse.
I fit my own radiators, did all the plumbing in my bathroom, and do all my own electrical work.
If I sell the house I get the electrical work checked by someone authorised to do so.
I'm not allowed to do anything on gas lines. The national grid own everything past my consumer unit, so I can't touch that either.
Electrical and plumbing parts are easy to get from basically any DIY store
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>>2956174
Seriously what's wrong with that country? How the fuck do you go from settling far away lands across the globe to over regulate every single little detail of life?
It's pathetic at this point, the biggest nanny state in the world, makes the UK seem like a libertarian paradise in comparison.
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>>2956110
I plumbed your mums arsehole, no licence required
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>>2962416
World war killed all the brave intelligent men
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>>2956637
The engine explodes petrol to move the car, but a tiny bit of propane is suddenly too dangerous?
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>>2962438
>brave intelligent men walk into machine gun fire because some waterbrained public schoolboy told them too
>they euthanized every single soldier on both sides post war
Boomerbrain take
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>>2962855
Laugh at this child, he thinks social stigma, propoganda and conscription wouldn't effect him.

Besides even the survivors were traumatized and hated their children and wives. They had to invent the little yellow pill and everyone drank excessively and beat their children.

The damage to society from the world wars has not even begun to be calculated
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>>2962400
Anon didn't say it's impossible to do, they said it's illegal.
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>>2956540
what the fuck is happening here?
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>>2962948
I know what they said
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>>2962944
This is the same sort of therapist-guild propaganda that reduces much of the entirety of post-war history to a trauma response.
Child and wife beating was still rare despite all the propaganada you see about "1950s dads." You'd think it was a majority of them, but no. Most veterans got along just fine.
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>>2962959
Surely there was nothing fucked up.about the.generation of parents that gave rise to the hippies and let the communists into your schools
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>>2956110
no but i do it anyway.
electrical
>actual legal code. inspections are rare and if that happends if its done by the book they got little to do except nag on you for paperworks. you can ignore it and the problem goes away.
plumbing
>insurrance pushed code. zero legal implications but insurrance company will instantly deny any payout if its done by you. then you must counter sue them and make them prove you did something wrong. they will loose and be forced to pay if you did it by the book.
no one use gas here.
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>>2962400
>If I sell the house I get the electrical work checked by someone authorised to do so.
depends where you live but basically this
>>2962400
>The national grid
dno owns your cutout, supplier will own your meter. iirc you own the tails to the meter you just can't safely (shouldn't) fuck with them.
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>>2956262
>>suddenly all your shitty unlicensed work comes to light
This

Just do it to code and don't make it look like a hackjob and literally nobody will ever ask questions or check who worked on your house, problem solved.
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>>2963071
>Just do it to code
doesnt matter if you do anything electrical outside of 14/2 romex
buddy sold his place that had extensive 3ph industrial wiring hed done in the shop and the moron home inspectors threw a fit because it was thhn individual conductor not romex. they had no idea what they were looking at
same with the black iron compressed air piping. they said it was an illegal propane installation or abandoned water piping that needed removed
tldr unistrut and conduit terrifies the blackstone trained inspector
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>>2956110
I once changed a toilet valve despite not being a licensed plumber
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>>2963079
You just ignore them and tell them to fuck off. Inspectors have no power. They exist to get you to write value off the house in negotiating
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>>2963114
>how dare anybody suggest the made up number some roastie working on commission assigned to your sheetrock box is not gospel
the inspector is just an agent of the bank (the actual owner of the house) making sure there is in fact a shitbox in the location stated on the title. no different than the (((appraiser))) doing a driveby and checking the form next to the roasties made up number. the fact that the buyer has to pay for these (((services))) is purely humiliation
houses should be bought and sold in person over a cup of coffee and a handshake. theres no reason for the trillion dollar grift industry created around it
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>>2962808
The gasoline explodes inside a 400lb cast iron lump, refrigerant is in 2mm wall aluminum pipes and 1/2 inch rubber hoses
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>>2963170
>gasoline in chinese soda straw thin plastic tubes at 100psi and electric valves clicking constantly
>diesel in chinacast aluminum at 30k psi
>either hooked to 30 gal tank with a 50 gph pump running nonstop
i aint skeert o no 12oz o propane
captcha: SKRTD
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>>2962416
Not all australians are crocodile dundey rugged bush men. Plenty of "cultivated" kind that speak and act like bong faggots.
Every anglo country is dystopian bureaucracy. Maybe industrial revulution brainwashed them.



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