Stroma Certification Scheme has anyone heard of STROMA

[peterhyper]

I assume people use this rather than using trimble/amtech etc. Due to cost. What about niceic paperwork . I think it's £1 a cert not 100% though. ...is this what u mean when u say chase up certificate?.​

What I meant was I submitted the certs online using their software, which in fairness was easy to do, and stroma would have received it but rarely sent certs out without me having to chase them up. One customer emailed me say that he eventually got his cert (after I had to chase it up), but the print was poor as if the printer had almost run out of ink. I called stroma who confirmed that their printer had been running low on ink hence the poor quality!

 

[MisterE]

I'm with STROMA and use their online software, it's free and it gets the job done (although a bit long winded), I've not had any issues with producing the .pdf certificates (downloaded instantly) and have the notifications emailed to me (they've always arrived same day) so that I can pass them on to the customer.

 

[JK-Electrical]

But as you are in Glasgow, do they operate in Scotland?

Apparently they do, but according to their member list there are just four electrical contracting businesses in Scotland who are members of STROMA.

 

[The Ghost]

submitted the certs

I never "submit" my certs through a scheme. I have heard NIC getting in touch with your customers and offering testing when the time is due. Do not know if that is urban legend or idle chat or what. I did clarify with STROMA before joining them their confidentiality policy regards this possibility and was assured they would never contact my customers.

 

[Midwest]

Might be wrong, but I doubt any organisation could use the information contained with certificates in that way. Urban myth I think.

 

[The Ghost]

Urban myth I think

I do tend to agree rationally. However how tempting must it be to have all that info and the possibility of making money from it? I find it hard to beleive a would be plutocratic organisation like NIC would pass that opportunity up and would in some way capitalise on it, but then thats the paranoid side of me.

 

[JOURNEYMAN]

I'm also with Stroma. No real problems with them. They're always polite and friendly. The assessments have always been thorough. Most of my work is domestic so I've no need for the elitist, expensive money grabbers that I was with in the past.
I have certs and notifications e mailed directly to me which is almost instant and then I print off and pass on to my clients. Handy if the client looses cert as I can quickly replace it. The software is best done on a tablet or lap top/desk top. The android version for the phone is too fiddly and small for an old timer like me. If you want to simply comply and be registered on a scheme with the least expensive, basic, no frills attached, no monthly newsletter with pics of scheme providers p****d up 'n spending your fees at a swanky black tie diner on Park Lane then Stroma are worth considering.

 

[MDJ]

keep getting contacted by STROMA about joining them and using there services for electrical certification , they seem to be implying that they are the new and improved NAPIT service, has anyone else had contact from them

If you want to be left alone and your work unchecked with just a yearly telephone call then they are great, didn't know they were in Jockland though, do you need a scheme up there?

 

[Midwest]

didn't know they were in Jockland though, do you need a scheme up there?

Op's been asked that a couple of times now. Apparently Stroma have crossed the wall.

 

[MDJ]

Op's been asked that a couple of times now. Apparently Stroma have crossed the wall.

I don't read most of the replies, they are usually bollox to be honest.

 

[Wilko]

I don't read most of the replies, they are usually bollox to be honest.

So would you include your own replies in this?

 

[MDJ]

So would you include your own replies in this?

everytime, keep up

 

[Midwest]

I don't read most of the replies, they are usually bollox to be honest.

Thats just being lazy, and up your own arse, pardon the profanity

 

[telectrix]

Thats just being lazy, and up your own arse, pardon the profanity

he's a Jeremy Corblimey supporter, what do you expect? .

 

[JK-Electrical]

If you want to be left alone and your work unchecked with just a yearly telephone call then they are great, didn't know they were in Jockland though, do you need a scheme up there?

No. Up here anyone can call themselves an electrician and carry-out electrical installation work. I know of plumbers up here carrying-out EICRs. I kid you not.

SELECT have been lobbying the Scottish Government for years to try and persuade them that electricians should be recognised as professionals and given legal protected status. But alas, wee Jimmy Sturgeon and her motley crew in Holyrood aren't listening. They're too busy trying to sabotage Brexit and gearing-up for a second independence referendum to be bothered about trivialities such dangerous electrical installations created by DIYers, cowboys and rogue electricians.