I was wondering if I could get some opinions...sorry for the essay, I'll try to be as brief as possible
We had a new fuse box and an outside light installed in March last year by a registered electrician. As I understand it, this is notifiable work. He did not give us a certificate to cover this work, and now that we are selling our house, it has come to light that we need one.
I asked the electrician to give us a copy now, as he should have at the time, but his response was that he does not give the certificates unless a customer requests one, and now that it's quite some months later, he can't issue one unless he first does an inspection (in case any additional work has been done since), and an inspection would be chargeable.
Now, I know this is all kinds of wrong, but he won't budge, at least to me. I have asked the solicitor dealing with the sale of our house to contact him, and Buildings Control advised me to report him to the regulatory body, which I have done.
My problem is that I don't know what to do if we can't make him change his mind. We've been stupid enough to lose the invoice, so I have to face the possibility that we may not be able to make him issue a cert. I'm told no other electrician can issue the cert for work done by someone else. When I asked Buildings Control if we could maybe put in an application now, and have another electrician certify it on their behalf, they said I was going about it the wrong way and I should just get the original electrician to certify it. But the problem is time - we're already in the process of selling the house and have a whole chain hanging on this.
Do I have any other options? Would a Periodic Inspection do the job? Someone mentioned indemnity insurance, but I really want to avoid going down that route....
Any advice would be very much appreciated.
We had a new fuse box and an outside light installed in March last year by a registered electrician. As I understand it, this is notifiable work. He did not give us a certificate to cover this work, and now that we are selling our house, it has come to light that we need one.
I asked the electrician to give us a copy now, as he should have at the time, but his response was that he does not give the certificates unless a customer requests one, and now that it's quite some months later, he can't issue one unless he first does an inspection (in case any additional work has been done since), and an inspection would be chargeable.
Now, I know this is all kinds of wrong, but he won't budge, at least to me. I have asked the solicitor dealing with the sale of our house to contact him, and Buildings Control advised me to report him to the regulatory body, which I have done.
My problem is that I don't know what to do if we can't make him change his mind. We've been stupid enough to lose the invoice, so I have to face the possibility that we may not be able to make him issue a cert. I'm told no other electrician can issue the cert for work done by someone else. When I asked Buildings Control if we could maybe put in an application now, and have another electrician certify it on their behalf, they said I was going about it the wrong way and I should just get the original electrician to certify it. But the problem is time - we're already in the process of selling the house and have a whole chain hanging on this.
Do I have any other options? Would a Periodic Inspection do the job? Someone mentioned indemnity insurance, but I really want to avoid going down that route....
Any advice would be very much appreciated.