I shall ignore the other comments, which is not needed.
They may not be what you think you needed, but prior to this there had not been one single comment which you could even remotely object to on a reasonable basis, and I challenge you to show otherwise.
That you had not got the replies which you thought you wanted is your fault, nobody elses.
I live on over 300mg morphine a day. The workshop is to allow me to do things; even if its for just 10 minutes. It will just give me a focus in life and stop me from thinking of suicide as my pain levels are beyond comprehension.
No amount of sympathy, no matter how heartfelt and genuine, makes any difference to the legal and regulatory framework in which electricians operate and electrical installation work is governed.
Although when I do, do a job its to a good quality. Before the new damn laws I had rewired two houses. My last house in West Wales an electrician had to do some work commented on my quality of installation. It doesn't need a huge amount of intelligence to put live, earth and neutral in the right places.
And there you've shot yourself in the foot.
There is far more to it than putting live, earth and neutral in the right places. You have to size cables to carry the current needed given their capacity as derated by the installation method. You have to route them in the right places. You have to take account of voltage drop and earth fault loop impedance.
And you have to
test. When you rewired those houses, did you know what tests you should have carried out on the installations - what sequence you'd do them in and at what point you would energise them, and for each test did you know what was being measured, why it was important, how you would carry out the test, and with what equipment, and what sort of results you would expect to get if everything was OK?
Did you do those tests?
The thing is, rewiring a house, installing new CUs, outside supplies, submains etc is not a trivial job, and I can assure you that it involves knowing far more than you think it does.
As I have said to all the electricians I contacted they can simply examine my work before they connect and do what they need to. It is done to what they would like to have.
If you want an electrician involved then you needed to involve him before you started, and to be directed and supervised by him in the same way that an apprentice would.
I am allowed to wire cables, not allowed to connect to the consumer unit etc.
Actually you are allowed to do anything and everything, you just have to be competent, but given your simplistic claims here I don't think you are.
Sorry not good english, too much morphine already.
With as much due sympathy for your medical condition as you would like, does your need for strong narcotics render you unfit to carry out electrical design, installation and testing?
I can't understand why people have to be greedy and not work with their clients. They still get paid work. Although we don't work in an altruistic world, it is all greed and nothing else. What a damn shame.
It's not greed.
How can you reasonably expect someone to sign this declaration:
FOR DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION, INSPECTION & TESTING
I being the person responsible for the design, construction, inspection & testing of the electrical installation (as indicated by my signature below), particulars of which are described above, having exercised reasonable skill and care when carrying out the design, construction, inspection & testing hereby CERTIFY that the said work for which I have been responsible is to the best of my knowledge and belief in accordance with BS 7671:2008, amended to ............. (date) except for the departures, if any, detailed as follows:
if they didn't actually do that?
How can you reasonably expect anybody to certify to Building Control that the work they did complied with the Building Regulations if they didn't do it?
I need the workshop fixing as my life can't be fixed. Ah well maybe there is an easier root out of life rather than all this damn red tape. We are swamped with it all
However you regard the current "red tape", the facts remain that you almost certainly did not do your previous rewires properly, and you have an unrealistic expectation of what electricians may do.
