1st January is nearly with us, and that marks the date at which kitchen and bathroom fitters anywhere west of Bristol will be (officially) unable to conduct their business. (Reason: There are no Unit 1 short corse training providers west of Bristol to enable fitters to become "competent persons").
This means that if I quote for any jobs which include electrical work affected by Part P, I will have to charge an external inspection/certification fee. Setting aside the fact that my local building control department won't know what to do, won't have any suitable inspection system in place, and won't have anyone on board who knows what a test meter looks like, let alone how to use it correctly, I will (of course) pass this inspection fee on to my customers.
However, inevitably, other competing fitters will not bother about this Part P business (because they won't spend a week in Bristol to do the training, or they won't want to involve an incompetent local authority, or they will run everything off 13A plugs and therefore absolve themselves from compliance) and therefore will quote for the work without certification and thus become unfairly competitive. No customer in this neck of the woods will know anything about new legislation, and will just accept whatever one of the cowboys tells them.
In the plethora of information available about Part P, can anyone point me in the direction of a simple, but officially published document, which I can show to customers to prove the existence of new legislation, and to justify the additional cost of external test and certification?
This means that if I quote for any jobs which include electrical work affected by Part P, I will have to charge an external inspection/certification fee. Setting aside the fact that my local building control department won't know what to do, won't have any suitable inspection system in place, and won't have anyone on board who knows what a test meter looks like, let alone how to use it correctly, I will (of course) pass this inspection fee on to my customers.
However, inevitably, other competing fitters will not bother about this Part P business (because they won't spend a week in Bristol to do the training, or they won't want to involve an incompetent local authority, or they will run everything off 13A plugs and therefore absolve themselves from compliance) and therefore will quote for the work without certification and thus become unfairly competitive. No customer in this neck of the woods will know anything about new legislation, and will just accept whatever one of the cowboys tells them.
In the plethora of information available about Part P, can anyone point me in the direction of a simple, but officially published document, which I can show to customers to prove the existence of new legislation, and to justify the additional cost of external test and certification?
