Good evening everybody. My first post on DIYnot.com.
Just to outline my background, I'm a heating engineer and private landlord. I'm self-employed, and registered with CORGI and OFTEC. I specialise in central heating and boiler fault diagnosis/repair, and I do occasional LPG work on boats.
Anyway, to get to the point, I'm making initial investigations into obtaining an electrical qualification. I'm not interested (yet) in Part P because I have no intention of installing anything (yet). I'm interested in carrying out PIRs. I currently get a steady stream of enquiries to carry out gas installation inspections from buyers of houses (as a result of arse-covering advice from their surveyors), and being able to offer an electrical PIR at the same time seems to make good business sense.
Further, with the way the wind is blowing in the private accommodation rental market, I'll be needing to have PIRs done regularly on all my rental properties too eventually. Doing them myself (as I do my landlord gas safety inspections) would be a Good Thing too. This is the background to my questions.
I may decide to join a Part P self-cert scheme eventually should I decide to start correcting faults and problems identified during PIRs, but I'm not sure about that yet. Fixing boilers keeps me fully occupied at the moment but with the weight of ridiculous and perverse regulation being heaped on us CORGI bods, I'm thinking to the future and may eventually wind down the gas work in favour of electrical if things continue to deteriorate.
So, where can I find out what qualifications are required to carry out PIRs in domestic dwellings please? I think I know what is required from reading old threads here but I'm looking for the source authority (if there is one). I'm also intrigued to know what mechanisms are in place to stop an unqualified person buying a pad and just starting to do PIRs.
I've been looking at the NICEIC site because one local council I deal with on property rentals have now started demanding PIRs by NICEIC electricians specifically. To enroll with NICEIC it seems I have to carry out installation work on a regular basis, which I don't, and never will, so are there other organisations of equal status with entry requirements geared to testing and inspecting rather than installing?
Thanks for any answers.
Cheers,
Mike4
Just to outline my background, I'm a heating engineer and private landlord. I'm self-employed, and registered with CORGI and OFTEC. I specialise in central heating and boiler fault diagnosis/repair, and I do occasional LPG work on boats.
Anyway, to get to the point, I'm making initial investigations into obtaining an electrical qualification. I'm not interested (yet) in Part P because I have no intention of installing anything (yet). I'm interested in carrying out PIRs. I currently get a steady stream of enquiries to carry out gas installation inspections from buyers of houses (as a result of arse-covering advice from their surveyors), and being able to offer an electrical PIR at the same time seems to make good business sense.
Further, with the way the wind is blowing in the private accommodation rental market, I'll be needing to have PIRs done regularly on all my rental properties too eventually. Doing them myself (as I do my landlord gas safety inspections) would be a Good Thing too. This is the background to my questions.
I may decide to join a Part P self-cert scheme eventually should I decide to start correcting faults and problems identified during PIRs, but I'm not sure about that yet. Fixing boilers keeps me fully occupied at the moment but with the weight of ridiculous and perverse regulation being heaped on us CORGI bods, I'm thinking to the future and may eventually wind down the gas work in favour of electrical if things continue to deteriorate.
So, where can I find out what qualifications are required to carry out PIRs in domestic dwellings please? I think I know what is required from reading old threads here but I'm looking for the source authority (if there is one). I'm also intrigued to know what mechanisms are in place to stop an unqualified person buying a pad and just starting to do PIRs.
I've been looking at the NICEIC site because one local council I deal with on property rentals have now started demanding PIRs by NICEIC electricians specifically. To enroll with NICEIC it seems I have to carry out installation work on a regular basis, which I don't, and never will, so are there other organisations of equal status with entry requirements geared to testing and inspecting rather than installing?
Thanks for any answers.
Cheers,
Mike4