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Hi again, I am back again with another question for you all Earlier I posted that the indepedant electrician that I called didn't like the way that some wiring was run alongside some of the pipes under the sink and recommended that they be rerouted and I instructed the "fitrician" :) to do...

Yeah spread out across five different areas of the kitchen. But no one area has more than three grid switches init so it shouldn't look too cluttered... Hopefully. After a hasty phone call to his electrician my "kitchen fittrician" agrees with you and now wants 13a DP fused spur outlets for...

Hi again, Contrary to my original post I now realise that I want to go with the 13A resistive 10AX DP switches from the Scolmore Click Mini Grid Modules range as shown via the link below...

Hi all As suggested by ban-all-sheds back on friday I have finally spoken with LABC who were really nice actually. They outlined the entire certification procedure to me and stated that as advised earlier in this post the kitchen work DOES need to be Part P registered with them because I am...

Hi all another update for you. Ok have now had another independant electrician come round as it turns out the first independant electrician wasn't independant or even an electrician at all. My dad thought he could save some cash by getting one of his mates in who does the occasional job here...

I called my Trading Standards department and was immediately transferred to Consumer Direct who told me that electric/building work is outside of their jurisdiction. and that I would be better off talking to the LABC. I'm thinking of giving them a call but aren't they likely to want much more...

Thing is I want to call Trading Standards to see where I stand but I don't really want to escalate the issue. At the moment tempers are flared and feathers are ruffled but the relationship is still somewhat amicable. I just don't want to have to pay more money to redo what has already been done...

Ok the fitter was not happy at all... Kept asking why I was questioning the quality of his work and tells me that if I wanted the work done by an expert I should have gone to a qualified electrician and paid a lot more money. I told him if I knew he wasn't qualified and wasn't going to follow...

He's at the door wish me luck!

Thanks for the getting involved ebee, in fact thanks to everyone that has gotten involved your invaluable comments and advice have been a godsend & really helped me to get a better understanding of my situation & how unacceptable this fitters conduct has been. Once they figure out how to...

An update!! I had the independent electrician in, he looked at the wiring and from what he could he see it looked like it was done alright (but he stressed that without knowing what was going on behind the walls he couldn't be positive). One thing he did not like was the way the cable was...

Sorry to repeat myself but how much information can be gleaned about the quality of an installation with only access to wires hanging out of walls and above the consumer unit. I feel as though having the independent electrician rip out the plasterboard walls to check behind them is a very...

Ok, Did a Yellow Pages search and have spoken with an electrician round the corner (Never knew there were so many in my area 3 alone on opposite ends of my own street :shock: ) who has agreed to come round tommorow when the fitter and his crew are off to make an inspection of the work done...

I completely agree and I will fight him on this tooth and nail. But at the end of the day I need the work certified and no other electrician will do that without having done the work themselves. I am in a bind and at his mercy and he is probably well aware of that. :( I don't think either...

Making the resale of the property more lengthy and potentially more expensive seems like a very good reason for getting the work certified. I don't know that the fitter's electrician is a qualified supervisor I will ask about that when I ask about the organisation that the electrician is...

It seems clear to me that if I go down the fitters route his work will get certifed by his perhaps electrician, perhaps even when it shouldn't??? What are the ramifications of not getting the electric work certified?

Electric work is part of the contract but there is no mention of the cost of having the electrics certified. Which is why I didn't know certification until I registered with this site. So if the fitter waives the £200.00 and gets his electrician to come in and certify the work the regulations...

Based in England. NorthWest London. Ok I have spoken to the fitter. He is not part P registered but tells me that for £200.00 he can have his registered electrician (who has never been on site) certify his work and provide me with a certificate. I have spoken with a few other electricians...

Do you mean to say that electricians walk about with fake Part P certification documents??? :shock: Who should a "trustworthy" electrician be registered with and what written proof should he provide me to verify his qualifications and roughly how much would an electrician usually charge for...

Thanks for the response. Unfortunately they have already started and have added all the new sockets and undercabinet lighting throughout the kitchen. I didn't know anything about the Regulations & Certification until I joined this website yesterday to ask a question about grid switch...