EAS schemes zero accountability

[Too old]

Currently we have been with our scheme provider for more than a decade.
They don't ever support retail customers complaining about their or other scheme provider issues.

They don't actually deal with a complaint and try the unrecorded phone call route.

They want to visit once a quarter for an assessment that is 3-1 year according to EAS

Price has gone up and no discounts or discussions.
UKAS are just as useless.

Just about to throw the towel in as we all know there is zero enforcement unless HSE involved.

Reckon can live quite happily with zero nonsense any more.

 

[EricMark]

The English law was a knee-jerk reaction to kitchen fitters doing some really shoddy workmanship, we were with England when the law came in, but when it was realised it was OTT, we had our own parliament, so the rules were not relaxed in Wales.

So today we have very few jobs in England where scheme membership is required, and in Wales in general the law is ignored, if someone wants a new socket in the kitchen they just fit one, without paying £100 plus vat to register the work.

But as a tradesman, we have little option, Part P has resulted in domestic electrics costing a lot more, and harder to get done.

I worked as an industrial and commercial electrician most of my life, before Part P, when work was slack, I would do domestic, did not like domestic, as one had to deal with people who had no idea what you were doing, and likely as a result wanted to pay peanuts, so I left the monkeys to do that work, as we called them then house bashers.

Well to be fair, domestic has become more involved, with EV charging points, solar panels, batteries, and a host of smart devices. We had PLC's which did basic the same for years, but now we have a cheap version which will work with domestic.

But every now, and again we would find a domestic electrician who had moved into the industrial sector, and he did have a hard time. Even what seemed really basic stuff, found one, had replaced the Rayholt sockets on a 32 amp radial with the new yellow plastic type, where they had no fuses in the plug, seemed he was in some sort of autopilot mode, no thought about what he was doing, he claimed he did not know the pins in the Rayholt sockets were fuses.

 

[Too old]

Napit are not getting another penny from us, life continues without their games and there are other choices.
Dealing Napit with in our opinion a bunch of parasites, liars, thieves and scumbags-- moving to another scheme would be better than continuing to pay thousands to them.
Heads up Napit try to do verbal agreements and then refuse to be accountable or demand money to release paperwork that has already been paid for.

Enough commercial work to simply not need to pay an organisation to give us grief, the latest schemes to train new electricians are no threat to our business.