Hi,
you`re getting some pretty good advice on here from the members of the forum.
Just a recap.
The "Electrician" doing the work should have either notified the local authority before hand and given them chance to inspect & test if they wished to. The LABC then would have issued you with a certificate of compliance.
Alternatively, if the electrician is registered with one of the schemes then he would have issued you with an Electrical Installation Certificate covering all the work he has done (consumer unit change and inspection & testing of all the circuits connected to it and any new circuits he added and any new works to existing circuits).
He would then also offer you an optional warranty (if the works totals £200 or more).
He would then notify his scheme operator within about 21 days who would in turn notify the LABC with 28 days of completion of the works and the scheme would also have sent you a cert confirming this.
So either LABC would have been involved or you get an Electrical Installation Certificate (covering ALL the electrical work) and a warranty from him plus a certificate from the scheme operator.
The EIC will usually be 2 or three pages long and could be one he got from his own scheme operator (or even one of the other operators) or from IEE or from say kewtech or similar or even one of his own.
If he`s using a kewtech one that makes me a little sus but it could be OK though.
If he is in a scheme I would have expected him to put such details on the EIC along with his reg number so you can check it easily. The schemes websites are pretty much up to date (a few weeks delay at most) with this and the competent person ones by the LABC nationally are usually fairly accurate but not always as up to date.
Frankly I`m not suprised that your alarm bells are ringing and would be interested to see what his explanation is.
At the end of the day there really are two questions.
1/ Has Part P been complied with (If not you could face big problems if you sell your house).
2/ Has the work been done correctly (and safely)
If he`s doing so much work (and a lot of it would be notifiable) then it`s difficult to imagine that he would not register if he`s complying with the law. Purely for his own financial sense.
Let us know how you get on.
Hope that helps
(just for reference I am a registered installer so my advice might be fairly accurate)
you`re getting some pretty good advice on here from the members of the forum.
Just a recap.
The "Electrician" doing the work should have either notified the local authority before hand and given them chance to inspect & test if they wished to. The LABC then would have issued you with a certificate of compliance.
Alternatively, if the electrician is registered with one of the schemes then he would have issued you with an Electrical Installation Certificate covering all the work he has done (consumer unit change and inspection & testing of all the circuits connected to it and any new circuits he added and any new works to existing circuits).
He would then also offer you an optional warranty (if the works totals £200 or more).
He would then notify his scheme operator within about 21 days who would in turn notify the LABC with 28 days of completion of the works and the scheme would also have sent you a cert confirming this.
So either LABC would have been involved or you get an Electrical Installation Certificate (covering ALL the electrical work) and a warranty from him plus a certificate from the scheme operator.
The EIC will usually be 2 or three pages long and could be one he got from his own scheme operator (or even one of the other operators) or from IEE or from say kewtech or similar or even one of his own.
If he`s using a kewtech one that makes me a little sus but it could be OK though.
If he is in a scheme I would have expected him to put such details on the EIC along with his reg number so you can check it easily. The schemes websites are pretty much up to date (a few weeks delay at most) with this and the competent person ones by the LABC nationally are usually fairly accurate but not always as up to date.
Frankly I`m not suprised that your alarm bells are ringing and would be interested to see what his explanation is.
At the end of the day there really are two questions.
1/ Has Part P been complied with (If not you could face big problems if you sell your house).
2/ Has the work been done correctly (and safely)
If he`s doing so much work (and a lot of it would be notifiable) then it`s difficult to imagine that he would not register if he`s complying with the law. Purely for his own financial sense.
Let us know how you get on.
Hope that helps
(just for reference I am a registered installer so my advice might be fairly accurate)
