Hi - doing a small job which involves extending cables to move a consumer unit. Always used connectors to do this before but advised recently I should use crimped connectors. Any thoughts?
If the work doesn't involve a new CU or any 'new circuits' (and the CU is not in the zones of a bathroom etc.!), the work would not now be notifiable (in England), so LABC would not have to be involved.Yes I'm competent - fully qualified Part P and Wiring regs 17th Edition - I just don't do a lot of work these days and hence don't pay for the registration any more so if I do work like this I always do it under building control supervision.
What exactly is a Part P qualification ? What knowledge and / or skills are necessary to be Part P qualified.Yes I'm competent - fully qualified Part P and Wiring regs 17th Edition -
You are not an electrician.With regards to Part P my course was 4 days with an exam at the end.
You are not an electrician.With regards to Part P my course was 4 days with an exam at the end.
That course, at best, can possibly stop the egregiously dangerous and ignorant mistakes perpetrated by kitchen fitters, plumbers et al.
And that's all - it certainly does not equip you with the knowledge and skills to do rewires, new CUs etc.
To be fair to BAS, you did indicate that your courses/'qualifications' rendered you 'competent' - which, as you now acknowledge, is by no means necessarily the case. In any event, courses and qualifications are not all of the story - I've never done any such courses nor gained any such 'qualifications', but I nevertheless feel that I am pretty 'competent' to do most domestic electrical things.Woa!! I was responding to someone who asked about the Part P course and I certainly wasn't claiming that it equipped anyone - least of all me to claim they were an electrician - that has involved years of work, experience and training.
It actually must have been a bit more than that. As you are aware, "Part P of the Building Regulations" consists of a single, fairly short, sentence - it could not possibly take 4 days to teach just that!Thank you for confirming being "Part P qualified" does not mean the holder is a qualified electrician but has had a course in the content and requirements of Part P of the building regulations.
If I did, then I hope (because it should have been what I meant) I was clear that after "competent" should be "in the eyes of my LABC". I did it for 2 reasons - one was curiosity, the other was to be able to do my own electrical work in a project that required notification. As it happened, the project did not go ahead, but has now come back to life. Hopefully they'll still like the old qualification - I do plan to find somewhere to "do the 17th" as a walk-in for the test. I know I can do it at our chums in Brum, but would rather not go that far. And if I don't get my skates on I'll have to do the AMD3 version.To be fair to BAS, you did indicate that your courses/'qualifications' rendered you 'competent'
I was responding to the OP, and hence to what he ("you" above) had written, not you.If I did, then I hope (because it should have been what I meant) I was clear that after "competent" should be "in the eyes of my LABC".To be fair to BAS, you did indicate that your courses/'qualifications' rendered you 'competent'
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