essentially I can call their boss back and ask him what exactly I'm paying £150 for since the work is notifiable to NICEIC anyway which covers the building notification/Part P.
Mmmm. Can of worms it is opened have you.
The work was not done by the firm, and it will be the firm which is registered with NICEIC, and the firm which is allowed to self-certify Building Regulations compliance. The employees will
not be registered in their own right and
cannot self certify in their own right, and yet it is they who did the work in their own right.
Is there anyway I can check to see if they've notified NICEIC of my work?
The firm won't until you pay them.
In practice the authorities will do nothing about the failure of the electricians to notify in advance, or to you for not using a registered electrician. I fully accept that you didn't know how it works - no reason why you should be aware of the subtleties, but unfortunately those subtleties mean that you did not use a registered electrician (which I expect was what you promised to do), and it is those subtleties which Billy Bullshіtter is exploiting to charge you £150.
I have no questions at all regarding the electricians who did the work, they're extremely honest with me, and have been very open with what's been going on. It's just their boss who I am now dealing with..
And if you don't pay for the work it will be them as individuals who you are not paying, not the company for whom they work.
Now just to call their boss tomorrow and ask what the £150 covers.
I'd say yes, do that, but only because I would love to hear the explanation he gives you.
The reality is that the £150 covers him saying that his company did the work when it did not, and ensuring that you get the compliance certification which you need, the lack of which would cost you a lot more than £150 to sort out.
The reality is that you're going to have to pay him. [ROCK] {you} [HARD PLACE]
As I've mentioned before, the sparkies who came to do the work are fully trustworthy.
Well - they can't be trusted to put any effort into finding out, or knowing about, RCBOs for your CU - they just took the lazy route.
I'm not entirely sure how they think they can get away with misquoting/ripping people off in this day.
Because they can. That £150 is quite cleverly pitched.
Took me a whole 5 minutes of posting on this forum to find out he's overcharging!
There is no recognised scale of charges for taking payments to say you did something which you did not.
Did the electricians really do the work in their own time? Was there any evidence of them using company tools, company vans etc? Where did they get the materials - did they buy them themselves, or get them from the company? What's on any invoices you've had - names, VAT numbers etc? It is possible that a case could be made to say that it was really the company who did the work, but who would do that, and what would it cost?
He knows that if you don't pay he can just walk away, and lose nothing, and not face any comeback from anybody.
You might as well complain to NICEIC about what he's done - doubt they'll do anything but it won't hurt. And if you don't get a VAT receipt for the £150, then after you have paid and
after they've notified, ask for one and one for the rest of the work, because one thing you can do is to sic HMRC onto him with a tale of suspected VAT evasion by pretending that work is being done by employees in their spare time.
Ordered so should be here this week. Put my trust in you that it'll fit, no idea how you found that out. I couldn't!
