Electricity safety

[dingodeano]

I feel genuinely bad for you.
I wish I could tell you to get in touch with electricsafe or the electrical safety register and that they would come down hard and prosecute any 'tradesman' with such a low regard for electrical safety. Really do their bit for improving and protecting the electrical industry.
However if you do contact Elecsa/Eca NICEIC/ESC or NAPIT which are all the representative trade bodies of the electrical industry........
You will find that none of them care.
Sorry but however bad the electrical work is there is no electric safe or electrical safety register who will fight your corner.
Your best bet is legal advice or trading standards.
Good luck.
If he messed with your gas installation contact Gas safe I don't think they take to kindly to unsafe gas work.

 

[gnougnoume]

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• gnougnoume
• 7 Feb 2013
• 1

 

[dingodeano]

Complete and utter mess. Don't pay him for your certificate. Try and get the name of electrician but to be honest this work was not done by an electrician. You will get no help from any electrical trade association. They are only interested in getting electricians to pay them fees to be a member of their inclusive or exclusive clubs.
You need trading standards but persue gas safety not electrical safety.

 

[SaladFingers]

Where did you find these guys?

 

[Spark123]

Your Local Authority Building Control may be interested in your electrics

 

[SaladFingers]

If this is the overall standard of work, the LABC might be interested in all of it.

 

[dingodeano]

This room is going to be a shower at thefar end with a glass screen , then a toilet just below the gas meter and a sink in the corner next to the toilet.
Can I put an electric socket somewhere in that room?

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• gnougnoume
• 14 Aug 2012
• 5

 

[dingodeano]

Excuse me for my ignorance but I am only the female owner and not in charge of the work. What is part p?

One of the parts of the Building Regulations, it covers electrical work in your extension in the same way that Part A covers the structural aspects, part B fire resistance, Part G the installation of the WC, Part L energy efficiency etc.

The reason I asked what I did is that depending what you told Building Control about who would be doing the electrical work etc, the advice here might need to be "you need to ask your electrician about that, as he is the one taking responsibility for it".

You sought advice here in August.
You ignored advice.
Good luck to you.

 

[rjm2k]

You sought advice here in August.
You ignored advice.
Good luck to you.

I thought that room looked familiar, actually, looking at past posts Building Regs have been all over that extension plus there were issues with getting plans approved - were they ever approved? Did BR have their eyes closed when they visited?

I hope this gets sorted but looking at the big picture, I'm pretty glad I don't live next door!

 

[gnougnoume]

You sought advice here in August.
You ignored advice.
Good luck to you.

I thought that room looked familiar, actually, looking at past posts Building Regs have been all over that extension plus there were issues with getting plans approved - were they ever approved? Did BR have their eyes closed when they visited?

I hope this gets sorted but looking at the big picture, I'm pretty glad I don't live next door!

Building control have come at every stage of the work and approved everything. Now they are just waiting for the certificates for gas and electricity.

That's how the shoer room looks now. The gas meter has been moved outside.

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• gnougnoume
• 7 Feb 2013
• 1

 

[gnougnoume]

Excuse me for my ignorance but I am only the female owner and not in charge of the work. What is part p?

One of the parts of the Building Regulations, it covers electrical work in your extension in the same way that Part A covers the structural aspects, part B fire resistance, Part G the installation of the WC, Part L energy efficiency etc.

The reason I asked what I did is that depending what you told Building Control about who would be doing the electrical work etc, the advice here might need to be "you need to ask your electrician about that, as he is the one taking responsibility for it".

You sought advice here in August.
You ignored advice.
Good luck to you.

We were already in a mess in August. Now we are trying to get rid of him. Not easy when he is convinced he has done a good job.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Building control have come at every stage of the work and approved everything.

I repeat, when you originally applied for Building Regulations approval, what did you say would be the way you would ensure compliance with Part P?

 

[gnougnoume]

Complete and utter mess. Don't pay him for your certificate. Try and get the name of electrician but to be honest this work was not done by an electrician. You will get no help from any electrical trade association. They are only interested in getting electricians to pay them fees to be a member of their inclusive or exclusive clubs.
You need trading standards but persue gas safety not electrical safety.

Trading standard do not care all they told us was to write to him to fix his mistakes, but I do not want him back at all.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Now they are just waiting for the certificates for gas and electricity.

I can't comment about the gas, but they are never going to receive a valid electrical certificate.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Trading standard do not care all they told us was to write to him to fix his mistakes, but I do not want him back at all.

Legally you have to give him the opportunity.

Time to find a solicitor.