Detached garage - to certify or not to certify.

[Bobble23]

Can anyone help me with a paperwork issue?

I've just installed a floodlight onto the external wall of a detached garage. The garage's slave consumer unit (is 'slave' the right term?) had a spare 5A re-wireable fuse so I connected the light into that, the only other part of the circuit being the light-switch to control the floodlight.

I'm not sure what I need to do certificate-wise. I think I read somewhere that work in a detached garage isn't notifiable unless it involves provision of a new circuit across the garden. As the circuit across the garden was already there I presume that means my little lighting circuit isn't notifiable and so there's no need for an EIC?

If I'm right about not needing an EIC, should I issue a minor works cert or would that not be needed either?

Or should I just talk the customer into a full re-wire of the whole house so at least I know I just certify anything that moves?

Any help (facetious or otherwise) much appreciated.

 

[Paul.M]

So many points to say but I'll just answer the first question.

It's a new circuit so its an EIC.

 

[Richard Burns]

Agree^^^^^

I think that it is a new circuit, is is not a special location (detached garage) but it is an outdoor lighting installation (so is a special installation, as it is not a light on the outside of a house with no exposed outdoor connections), so (mainly because it is a new circuit) it is notifiable under Part P.

Read pages 8 and 9 on this.

 

[telectrix]

i would say it's not notifiable as it's a light fixed to the building which already has an electrical installation in situ. agree with EIC though.

 

[Dave 85]

Can anyone help me with a paperwork issue?

I've just installed a floodlight onto the external wall of a detached garage. The garage's slave consumer unit (is 'slave' the right term?) had a spare 5A re-wireable fuse so I connected the light into that, the only other part of the circuit being the light-switch to control the floodlight.

I'm not sure what I need to do certificate-wise. I think I read somewhere that work in a detached garage isn't notifiable unless it involves provision of a new circuit across the garden. As the circuit across the garden was already there I presume that means my little lighting circuit isn't notifiable and so there's no need for an EIC?

If I'm right about not needing an EIC, should I issue a minor works cert or would that not be needed either?

Or should I just talk the customer into a full re-wire of the whole house so at least I know I just certify anything that moves?

Any help (facetious or otherwise) much appreciated.

Eh?....Is this a joke?

 

[Plonker 3]

If it is a new circuit back to the DB then it needs notifying to LABC regardless.

 

[telectrix]

as if LABC are bothered. only if they can get a nice fat fee from it.

 

[Plonker 3]

If I have to pay my fees, then so should every bugger else :nopity:

 

[DurhamSparky]

New Circuit = Automatic Notification
External Lighting = Automatic Notification (Can argue till the cows come home but extract of text taken from the DCLG Leaflet i give to customers) "new electrical installations in bathrooms, kitchens and outdoors"

and as my standard LABC notification is £12.99 -(£1.75+Vat) i pay to Elecsa it forms an additional form of income for my time and effort!

im not paying for it, so it gets registered so there is no grey area or come back!

Now did the circuit have RCD protection ?