it's official NIC-EIC gone to pot

bugsy · Sep 9, 2011

When I started electrical contracting the NIC-EIC were a charity and a well respectected body being an NIC-EIC approved contractor gave you status ( our inspecting engineer - Mr Waterhouse - now retired - had an uncanny habit of finding the worst bit of an installation by just sniffing the air ) They then became a business , lots of changes ( start of the slope )
today I discovered they have been taken over by an international certification company so from now on it will all be about money , sod the standards pay us enough and your in

New certification body required please

oxocube · Sep 9, 2011

bugsy said:
from now on it will all be about money , sod the standards pay us enough and your in

I thought it had always been like that with all the scam providers.

telectrix · Sep 9, 2011

think i'll start my own scheme. AIE, (association of independent electricians) only £100 per annum, 10% discount for all forum members. if it works when you switch it on, you're in!

cagedanimal2010 · Sep 9, 2011

telectrix said:
think i'll start my own scheme. AIE, (association of independent electricians) only £100 per annum, 10% discount for all forum members. if it works when you switch it on, you're in!

now we're talking!!!!!

oxocube · Sep 9, 2011

telectrix said:
if it works when you switch it on, you're in!

Will a little bit of smoke be acceptable?

telectrix · Sep 9, 2011

only if you pass it round

IQ Electrical · Sep 9, 2011

oxocube said:
I thought it had always been like that with all the scam providers.

Exactly, just because NICEIC are by a massive margin, the largest and most familiar scheme provider, they are often the convenient target.

Yes, things have changed but they wouldn't have survived without changing to a more commercially-minded operation and one spin-off from that is the excellent publishing division.

They're all in it for the dollars, that I do believe!