What’s involved in this? I’d like to learn how to become qualified to be able to do my own notifiable work.
Anyone doing electrical work needs to be competent. There are several ways of proving that competence.need to be Part P certified and not just “competent”?
This is true in theory.There are no restrictions on who can do notifiable work - they just need to be competent and to actually notify when it's required.
The garden is no longer a restriction in England.Thanks. Is my understanding correct that if you wish to do you own electrics in the garden or installing new circuits in your house then you need to be Part P certified and not just “competent”?
Very true, whole idea of Part P is to have the same legal powers to ensure wiring is safe as in commercial premises under the electricity at work act.Indeed. Part P is a building reg not a qualification.
In practice from what I can gather the cost and hassle of dealing with building control, make it not work trying to do the work yourself legally vs paying someone to do it.
Very true, whole idea of Part P is to have the same legal powers to ensure wiring is safe as in commercial premises under the electricity at work act.
In England you can use third part inspectors, schemes can cover people to inspect other peoples work, in the main this was to allow a plumber to install central heating for example then the company inspector would check the electrical work, although he could do it for general public that was not really the idea, and some scheme providers decided not to offer the third party inspection anyway.
The problem is fit a new socket in the kitchen is likely going to cost less than the LABC charges. Whole house re-wire it may be worth while, but even then one will it cost less than the £2000 limit in the eyes of the LABC inspector, and also will the inspector consider you have the skill? If he does then when completed you send your installation certificate to the local authority and they send you a completion certificate, as I found out, they did not even visit the house, it was a simple rubber stamp job. However if they don't think you have the skill, they can send third party inspectors at your expense as many times as required.
There is a difference between trusted not to turn on power until the LABC inspector is satisfied it is OK to do so, and trusted to complete the installation/minor works certificate correctly.If the LABC decided the installer has the skills/qualifications to do the job, there is no need for an inspector out so a house visit would achieve nothing.
That will obviously be the case with small (but notifiable) jobs but, there again, it may be difficult to find scheme-member electricians who are interested in doing very smalljobs.This is true in theory. In practice from what I can gather the cost and hassle of dealing with building control, make it not work trying to do the work yourself legally vs paying someone to do it.
There is a difference between trusted not to turn on power until the LABC inspector is satisfied it is OK to do so, and trusted to complete the installation/minor works certificate correctly.
I am sure like your self, if I wanted I could fudge up some results which would look good on paper even if I had never taken the meter out of the box, the only way to show my paper work is not a Jackanory story is to compare at least one reading.
Even the electricians mate in the Emma Shaw case was able to fudge up some results.
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