Brief description of prospective work:
Domestic garage, replacing 2 x GLS bulb lights, each with their own separate switch, with one fluorescent light with two-way switching.
Complications:
One of the existing switches is a 2-gang, and the 2nd switch bizarrely is part of two-way switching of a porch light, which is nowhere near the garage. This needs to be removed and the porch light switched by existing front-door switch only.
Also considering adding PIR sensor to this circuit, which can be isolated so that the light operates as normal by the two-way switching (may need advice on this in separate thread).
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So would this count as a "partial re-wire" and therefore notifiable under Part P ?
Or could it be considered non-notifiable, as per:
"Work that is not in a kitchen or special location and does not involve a special installation (5) and consists of:
- adding lighting points (light fittings and switches) to an existing circuit."
Or could it be classed as just replacement of one circuit, also non-notifiable? (technically of course I would be replacing 2 circuits with 1, and modifying another.)
If this work is indeed notifiable, as I suspect, I could simplify it to just replacing one of the current lights with the new one, but it would look crap, and kind of defeat the whole object of the exercise.
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About me:
I have C&G 2330 Electrical Installations, and about a year's experience as an electrician's mate, mainly industrial sector. I would consider myself a 'competent person' and comfortably able to carry out the required work, but if it was notifiable I don't think I can sign it off as I'm not 'fully-qualified' and am not registered to any scheme such as NICEIC.
Domestic garage, replacing 2 x GLS bulb lights, each with their own separate switch, with one fluorescent light with two-way switching.
Complications:
One of the existing switches is a 2-gang, and the 2nd switch bizarrely is part of two-way switching of a porch light, which is nowhere near the garage. This needs to be removed and the porch light switched by existing front-door switch only.
Also considering adding PIR sensor to this circuit, which can be isolated so that the light operates as normal by the two-way switching (may need advice on this in separate thread).
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So would this count as a "partial re-wire" and therefore notifiable under Part P ?
Or could it be considered non-notifiable, as per:
"Work that is not in a kitchen or special location and does not involve a special installation (5) and consists of:
- adding lighting points (light fittings and switches) to an existing circuit."
Or could it be classed as just replacement of one circuit, also non-notifiable? (technically of course I would be replacing 2 circuits with 1, and modifying another.)
If this work is indeed notifiable, as I suspect, I could simplify it to just replacing one of the current lights with the new one, but it would look crap, and kind of defeat the whole object of the exercise.
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About me:
I have C&G 2330 Electrical Installations, and about a year's experience as an electrician's mate, mainly industrial sector. I would consider myself a 'competent person' and comfortably able to carry out the required work, but if it was notifiable I don't think I can sign it off as I'm not 'fully-qualified' and am not registered to any scheme such as NICEIC.