Going self-employed as a domestic electrician.

[20al]

Hello everyone, I need some advice. I am a 61 year old apprentice served electrician. I have been " in the game for 45 years ". Mostly I have been employed by companies in the commercial and industrial side. After a recent illness and a lot of thought I've decided I don't want to work for anyone else ever again ! With the children grown up and the ex elsewhere I don't need to earn as much as many others ( although I won't be doing work on the cheap, undercutting other sparks ). I can get by changing light fittings, extra sockets, showers for Mrs Jones, cash jobs ( which I will declare to HMRC ). The biggest job I intend doing would be a consumer unit change over maybe even the odd rewire in an empty house. My question is, do I need to get part P or similar ? I have not got a test qualification or 17th ed regs, I gave up after 16 ! As I mentioned I am time served spark, JIB Approved and consider myself competent. Thank you for reading this thread.

 

[Midwest]

In a word yes. If you gonna replace CU's, install new circuits all work within zones in special locations, you'll need to register with a scheme. And the scheme will expect some form of testing qualification & 17th ed regs. And you'll need an MFT.

Nice idea at 61, but you'll to splash out to get there. What are you doing now?

 

[Midwest]

PS, you might want to keep you threads to one section.

 

[Darkwood]

Ill close this thread as you have a similar thread already running with more replies, multiple threads on the same topic by the same person only lead to confuse members and create a headache for staff so please stick to one thread.