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As to what to do about it well first need date is it before Part P or after? (2004) If after Part P then either the scheme provider or the LABC should have picked up on the readings.
I am told scheme members don't actually send the Schedule of test results to the scheme provider so not sure what would happen if the electrician is a scheme member but the LABC do require the Schedule of test results to be submitted before issuing a completion certificate so should have picked up on
Not sure what you mean here,I have never submitted test results to the scheme provider or labc.
I did have to submit results to the LABC and it would seem this is the correct method. However I have been told results are not submitted to scheme provider instead they have spot inspections and assume if the inspection is OK all other jobs are also OK.
I have questioned many times the LABC and how long before they are brought to task like social services have been? They (The LABC) are responsible to ensure the work is up to scratch.
The LABC inspector is no different to anyone else and when he knows the work is being done by some one he has in the past found their work to be A1 he is inclined to rubber stamp the paperwork without checking it. However he is clearly taking a risk and should he pass something sub-standard then he is in trouble.
Where he can say he missed the problem as it was not visible at time of inspection or sample tests showed the work to be satisfactory then he can likely wriggle out of his responsibility. However with paper work showing so well that the installer had no idea then he is up the creak he should have picked up on this. Some one will have paid £100 plus to council for the completion certificate clearly the council have a duty to inspect both the work and the paperwork when paid so much.
With the scheme membership one would hope the scheme inspector would also inspect a sample of paperwork even if not that one and quickly realise the guy is getting it all wrong.
However my son worked for a large firm inspecting and testing and realised he was filling in a new form wrong where boxes had been moved on the form so entering wrong figures. He did forms correct for first 4 months then 2 months with error and month correct so 7 months working for firm and no one every queried the forms. Neither did at any time he meet the scheme providers inspector. Unlike Gas it is the firm would are scheme members not the electricians working for the firm so my son for 7 months did 1000's of installation certificates and not once did he see a scheme inspector.
This was one of the reasons for England reducing the regulations as clearly the scheme providers are not doing their job and too much is down to trust.
But of course we as yet don't know if a completion or compliance certificate has been issued? I have said before it is down to the home owner to ensure either he uses a scheme member or the LABC is informed and an electrician who issues an installation certificate to the home owner can claim he thought the owner had informed the LABC. Since the LABC do not issue a permit to work the electrician just has to take the home owners word for it. Where other work is being done then to include the electrics in the notification is not that expensive. This is what I did when converting a larder and loo into a wet room. Had I not been doing the electrics I could have very well employed some other electrician and he may have never met the building inspector. In fact I did employ a builder to install lintels and he never met the inspector. Neither did the builder who installed the drains.
Personally I think the LABC should issue permits to work then any electrician doing work without a permit could not claim he thought the owner had informed the council. But as far as I am aware there is still no permit system.