HELP please with next inspection date

[tom20]

Yes. after speaking with NICEIC we agreed that because we change the CCU, i have a duty of care to do basic tests on the existing circuits before they are powered back on. which i couldn't agree more. But the Council & Contractor still want me to put 10 years on that certificate lol.

 

[rattlehead85]

Camden Council!! Spent 5 years working on their crap!! They are well known for expecting the maximum amount for next to no money!! At the end of the day all they are interested in is you putting your name to their already neglected stock which they have failed to properly maintain over the years.
Have you worked on Rowley Way yet? my case rests lol.

 

[tom20]

lol glad to hear someone with some similar experience. I'm hunting around through all the books to find factual information that i can use in the meeting later this week to stop them from asking for 10 years on partial rewires.

So i already have guidance note 3 p65 printed out. and i have asked niceic to email me confirmation of their view. but was wondering if anyone knew of anymore to help?

 

[rattlehead85]

The problem is mate the people asking you to put 10 years on their certs don't even know why they are asking you to do so. You will find when you attend any meeting with Camden officials all you will get is some bloke rattling off a load of crap which he has had relayed to him by some other idiot who was told by Joe blogs.
I got queried once by one of their so called electrical engineers over a periodic report i did on one of their void properties. The report had about 12 code 1 departures and when he turned up to the meeting with his 'socket and see' plug top tester and got confronted with my MF tester, clamp tester and all my test equipment he chimes up 'Our other contractors never carried all this'....no wonder their properties are so bad and their tenants are forever calling the emergency call out number!

 

[tom20]

You know the situation i am in! unfortunately there is not much documentation on certifying partial rewires.

 

[rattlehead85]

Also forgot to mention we were on the brown edition of the regs at the time and Mr so called 'engineer' turns up with his brief case and pulls out an old 16th edition blue cover copy of the regs book!!
If you arrive with GN3 and the current BPG and OSG they will not know what to hit you with!

 

[rattlehead85]

We lost the contract because apparently we caused to much agro with the hierarchy over the safety and condition of the main supplies to some of their tower blocks which they already knew were extremely hazardous!

 

[tom20]

which is similar to what they are threatening to do to us.

 

[rattlehead85]

TBH i was glad to see the back of that lot because they are an accident or a death waiting to happen if it hasn't already. By far the worst council i have ever worked for and their duty of care amongst staff is appalling to say the least.