Electrician caught signing off new install certs for non registered spark!!!

[egginyourface]

I know a few Electricians that sign off other sparks work for some easy cash. What would happen if they were caught?

Any one hear of registered electrician get done for this sort of thing??

 

[Simlec]

Well here is the difference my mate is cousin to my wife and we grew up together I have my sparks ticket my mate worked for local government and has his 17th course and many others but not registered spark but he does work even for the building control guys but just can't sign it off so I help him out with that and we work together on many things

Not sure I follow you there?
so how do you notify your work?

 

[markc123]

And theres me telling other tradesmen you wont find a sparks willing to sign off someone elses work. Hope they're not reading this, i'll look like a right lieing barstewerd.

Doesn't it only take been competent to sign off ure own work if ure registered? If the person is unable to do this, then i personally wouldn't even think about signing it off for them.

Tests might work out fine and so on, but whats to say theres a broken fixture somewhere that a little kiddy winkle could get his fingers into that you've missed because you've not been involved from the start?

 

[egginyourface]

What do you want people to say?

You’ve earned a few quid for nothing and now you’re now bitching because it’s gone belly up. Tough luck, you’ll have to do something about it yourself.

I purposely left you’re mate out of my reply and addressed it to you. Because I believe in real life and don’t listen to fairy stories about mythical “friends”.

Is that aimed at me??

 

[buzzlightyear]

hi peps i did a job for a old timer do did a job on loft lift he asked his mate eca chap to test his work on pir
now mr building bloke came a long and took one look at it and no, the old timer rang me up and asked me would i do a eicr
i said yes to test the tester work and mr building bloke past it

 

[Knobhead]

The reason I'm asking this is a mate if mine signed off a sparks work few months ago. Now the house holder is having issues with the installation and unregistered sparks won't go back. And customer is chasing after the guy that signed it off.

It's like the playground, I didn't do it miss. He did.

 

[DPG]

hi peps i did a job for a old timer do did a job on loft lift he asked his mate eca chap to test his work on pir
now mr building bloke came a long and took one look at it and no, the old timer rang me up and asked me would i do a eicr
i said yes to test the tester work and mr building bloke past it

Is this from a Ladybird book? Janet & John rewire a house? Daz

 

[Silly Sausage]

T, I've got to find that 'don't ever repeat this comment' you made recently...haha!
Much fun to had in a few weeks time...

 

[egginyourface]

Look mate if I was in the situation this spark is in I'd be consulting professional legal advice not coming on here looking for answers.

I jus wanted to know what happens to . Do they get fined, slap on the wrist or worry yet trip to pentoville prison

 

[Deleted member 26818]

Look mate if I was in the situation this spark is in I'd be consulting professional legal advice not coming on here looking for answers.

I jus wanted to know what happens to . Do they get fined, slap on the wrist or worry yet trip to pentoville prison

None of the above.

No seriously, they would most likely get the slapped wrist if you can call it that much.
Perhaps a strongly worded letter in the post.

 

[markc123]

Look mate if I was in the situation this spark is in I'd be consulting professional legal advice not coming on here looking for answers.

I jus wanted to know what happens to . Do they get fined, slap on the wrist or worry yet trip to pentoville prison

Nothing will happen until something goes wrong. That's why sparks tend to stear away from signing off other peoples work, your names on it - so anything hes done wrong is no longer any concern of his no matter how serious it may be, he's in the clear. Its all up to the last name that's been in there.

 

[egginyourface]

Suppose that's why no one really knows what happens....

 

[SYKRAPS]

hi peps i did a job for a old timer do did a job on loft lift he asked his mate eca chap to test his work on pir
now mr building bloke came a long and took one look at it and no, the old timer rang me up and asked me would i do a eicr
i said yes to test the tester work and mr building bloke past it

But a PIR is just an older version of an EICR? We are all happy to perform an EICR on someone elses work but this does not lead to notification.

 

[sparkless]

we're Solar, and are permanently getting asked to sign off others peoples work with MCS.
I tell them to get lost

 

[bigbaddave]

whole system is flawed i am asking my next door neighbour to sign my next one off he is an accountant

Ah but that on valid on the second Tuesday of the month remember

 

[bigbaddave]

I'm with you on this one.. I'm struggling to see who signs off the work? Who you regerstered with? Or you get building control? If its the latter then as long as the work is ok the he can do it himself, regardless of what qualifications he has.