A dimmer switch has failed in my rental property and needs replacing. I'm no electrician but as this is as simple as it gets I was going to replace it myself. However, my wife is adamant that it is now the law that in a rental property anything electrical, no matter how trivial, must be performed by a qualified electrician. Is she correct?
Changing a wall light switch myself
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What you are describing would be classified as minor works. A competent DIYer could do it. However, reading the guidance, strictly speaking you should get a qualified person to check your work and issue a minor works certificate. In the real world, if you pay an electrician to check your work, you may as well pay him to do the installation in the first place...
Down to you to interpret the guidance as you see fit.
See the articles by NLA or RLA i.e. https://www.rla.org.uk/landlord/guid...l_safety.shtml
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