Right guys I'm recently qualified electrician and looking to join a competent persons scheme. Is there any drawbacks to joining NAPIT or ELECSA rather than the NICEIC? It's just iv heard the others are a lot easier to get into.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated
Replaced 3 way bell intercom system all cables bell out ok intercom speech panel working ok but problem is that I cannot here telephone end speech but they can here me at speech unit but I cannot here them this happens on all 3 telephones what can the problem be as cables are ok no faults on cables
I'm after a new certification software as I've been using the Napit desktop software, my free trial is up and don't really fancy paying for the renewal.
Anyone using anything better?
personally I think the Napit one is rubbish but I haven't had much experience with any others.
Any help...
Good evening all
i have a elderly client that has asked me to supply and fit a loud doorbell which she can hear from anywhere In the house as she is hard of hearing.
I've searched the net and unable to find something that will do the job. Dome door bells keep coming up but customers not happy...
Does anyone know if an electricians mate can work unaided as an electrician as a competent person and can he get public liability saying he is an electrician?
Does anyone have any experience of the above company, within a CPS capacity, for Inspection & Testing, (in relation to Local Authority Building Control (LABC).
Which one would you recommend, & why, (for the CPS), & which one would you not recommend, & why.
Hi all,
Just wondering if anyone has tried the new NICEIC online certification. I have done a couple of DEI's now and I find it very frustrating and more time consuming. I got the wrong property address on a form and had to issue a complete new certificate also. I don't think I will be using it...
Hi I'm very sorry if my first post is in the wrong place. I'm now starting my own electrical installations company involved in industrial/domestic and commercial installations.
I understand that becoming niceic approved contractor is the long term goal but in the short term could I sign off and...
Hi guys, I am slightly puzzled about this, if a commercial ground floor shop is to get rewired using a single phase consumer unit and it has a three phase supply but only one phase is supplying the shop and the other 2 phases are supplying different property's upstairs not belonging to the shop...
Hi all,
was going to buy some software to help with certification and heard amtech and easycert are pretty good but have heard now that the Niceic are going to be doing a pay per use scheme where by we wouldn't own the software or indeed the rights so no up front fees.... Could anyone tell me...
E.g. for letting agents. Does everyone go by the book, for example, 3 bedroom semi with gardens, electric shower etc. Old wooden backed wylex falling to bits, no RCDs, no bonding, metal light fittings on early 60s installation with no CPCs,
Do you,
1: Issue unsatisfactory EICR, get the go...
Hi Guys,
I was hoping for your thoughts about the supervision of apprentices/adult trainees?
I had a discussion with someone today about this subject and was hoping for some of your views on the subject.
Should apprentices/adult trainee's be working along side an electrician or approved...
Hi guys
iv not been long registered with the niceic and have just recently completed a re-wire incorporating interlinked fire alarms with battery backups and one heat alarm. I installed the fire alarms on both the upstairs and downstairs landing and the heat alarm in the kitchen.
i am now...
Whenever I've installed a new consumer unit I normally fill out an Electrical Installation Certificate & an Electrical Installation Condition Report but someone has told me this is too much & that all I need is the Electrical Installation Condition Report. Thoughts? I was under the impression...
Hi, I have done some renovation in customer's kitchen which was changing place of few sockets. After that I certified my job. It was all included in price details before I started anything and she said ok, the price is fine, do it.
So I finished everything, asked for money and she was like...
Hi all, I'm having a discussion about the correct NICEIC Certs to produce on a job. The scenario is, we have carried out works out on a big commercial site which include full rewires on three separate distribution boards each being 18 way 3 phase, the main SWA feeding each DB has stayed also the...
Since the design of most modern condensing boilers use the boiler casing as part of the combustion system, meaning only a gas safe engineer can remove them how many refuse to wire them up/ remove the case without the gas safe engineer present? and i guess more importantly how many realise that...
At the moment I have electrical wires running in trunking attached the walls, which I find somewhat unsightly, especially
in view of redecoration that I am carrying out at the moment. I would like conceal this wiring in trunking within the walls
(trunking plastered over), which may possibly...
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