This is of course an ignorant guess, but I won't be surprised if, by removing a few sockets from the ring, the location of the fault will be identified as being inside one of the backboxes, or the cable between two sockets, quite possibly where something has been screwed to the wall and the screw or a nail has pierced the cable. If so, a repair of the damage is all that will be needed.
Electrics and building regs
- Thread starter Ginnifer
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Yes, we're hoping that's the case too. The missing Part P is worrying, but for the moment I just need to be able to use the kitchen again!
Building Regulations (Part P) requires that: Reasonable provision shall be made in the design, installation, inspection and testing of electrical installations in order to protect persons from fire or injury.
That is the extent of the council / building control involvement.
Wiring regulations (BS7671) is a large A4 sized document with several hundred pages. Complying with that would usually be expected but is not mandatory. This is the only place that items such as bonding, RCDs and everything else is specified.
Schemes such as NICEIC would only have a record of the electrical work if one of their members did the work and notified it through their system. That would normally only happen where electrical work was the only thing being done. In your case the whole property was notified as one item, so also included the electrical work, hence the completion certificate you have relating to the entire property.
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A house completed in 2006 could well have been to plans made before Part P and all the misnomers were introduced.
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