Is Part P Being Ignored?

[ban-all-sheds]

Secondly, if you bothered to do the research, you'd see that building control offices are hard pushed to deal with direct notification and prefer you to have the work carried out by registered sparks.

He doesn't do research.

Look at his other posts - he has some laughably bizarre ideas - the last thing he'd be prepared to tolerate is being confused by the facts when he's already made his mind up.

 

[mbga9pgf]

Secondly, if you bothered to do the research, you'd see that building control offices are hard pushed to deal with direct notification and prefer you to have the work carried out by registered sparks.

He doesn't do research.

Look at his other posts - he has some laughably bizarre ideas - the last thing he'd be prepared to tolerate is being confused by the facts when he's already made his mind up.

Prime example of the "knowledge is power" mantra right above.

 

[PrinceofDarkness]

Dingbat is quite correct in saying that BCO's are hard-pushed to deal with direct notification for Part P. But this is because they weren't adequately prepared for it initially, and have been resisting it ever since.

The average BCO will still shift the onus of responsibity onto the householder/applicant and try to insist that only a 'Registered spark' may do the notififable work. This leads to an easier life for the BCO who has better things to do with his limited time.


Lucia.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Prime example of the "knowledge is power" mantra right above.

¿Que?

 

[ericmark]

it has cost householders lots of extra money to have electrical work done

Plenty of electrical work is not notifiable, so no additional costs there.
If people have notifiable electrical work done in their home and use a scheme member, the additional costs will be tiny or none.
If someone wanted small notifiable works doing, and for some reason chose a person who was not a scheme member, and then paid the LABC notification fee, then there will be an additional cost. However this is a small percentage of works done, and it is likely that such people wouldn't bother or care about notification anyway.

If it was as you say a small percentage of the total cost then maybe I would agree but in Wales it has a minimum based of £2000 worth of work. And this is the main problem very little electrical work will ever reach that figure. So the LABC charges to inspect a socket in a kitchen are higher than charged for whole job to be done.
Result no one in their right mind is going to pay them to inspect and so the whole idea fails as totally over priced.
It will like many laws remain on statute books but be ignored by most house holders.
If the charges we in relationship to work done by council then maybe it would work. For a guy to call at a house and inspect and test one socket will likely take 10 minutes include travelling house to house then half an hour to charge £100+ for half an hours work is criminal.