Just how many sparks would do it?

[Electricalserv]

Phonecall 4PM....''could you come and look at a job a spark has just done for me...I don't know if its right''

Anyway went. It was a new build, nice clean finish etc. Install looked good on initial inspection to the regs etc. Anyway...at that point I didn't know what I was there for. So I asked him....to the response of...

''Do you do certificates????'' I said yes....(brain already clocking this one.) ''could you do me a certificate for this install?, the guy that did the wiring has been a spark for 25 years he just isn't registered with a scheme and I've got nowhere left to turn than to have somebody to sign it off', I can assure you its all to the regs, we don't cut corners'' etc., etc.

I said can't do it...a massive no, no. Told him although it looks o.k, I don't know whats hidden behind the walls and floorboards....and for that reason I'm not willing to do it....

I kid you not! he offered me £1500 to put my name on the installation....

Needless to say I've walked away!

Big money but not willing to do it!!!!

I know alot of guys who would have taken it....

 

[BOROROBBO]

i would have done it straight up cash in hand no bother.

couldnt you have just done a periodic on it though? £1500 for 4 hours work isnt bad

 

[Des 56]

Is that 1500 a misprint
If it isn't,send me the address,its time this registration started paying back

 

[SirKit Breaker]

£1500 nice big carrot. can't you sign for test and inspection, and let other bloke sign for design and installation?

Just a thought, and at least you get to eat some of the carrot.

But i admire you for walking away. I have lost count of the amount of calls i get asking if i can do certificates.

Cheers........Howard

 

[Electricalserv]

Here's my problem....If my name goes on that cert, it comes back to me if anything goes wrong and unfortunately I just aint willing to do it.

Assessor at Napit told me he isn't bothered about complaints from customers etc except for bad installations and alike and if it happens I'm out basically. Is it worth teh risk of a bad name.

Big contracting firm this btw. New build from scratch. Had his own unregistered sparking team do the lot.

 

[Kamikaze]

I hope you charged him for the call out.

 

[BOROROBBO]

Here's my problem....If my name goes on that cert, it comes back to me if anything goes wrong and unfortunately I just aint willing to do it.

Assessor at Napit told me he isn't bothered about complaints from customers etc except for bad installations and alike and if it happens I'm out basically. Is it worth teh risk of a bad name.

Big contracting firm this btw. New build from scratch. Had his own unregistered sparking team do the lot.

couldnt you have tested it and written "LIM" in the box that says about wiring in zones etc to cover yourself?

 

[Electricalserv]

Now you guys have me thinking.....Do installations have to have a EIC before they can be PIR'd?

I'd do a PIR come to think of it

 

[bcuk04]

how often do you see an EIC when you do a PIR, cant think of anytime I have.

 

[Electricalserv]

how often do you see an EIC when you do a PIR, cant think of anytime I have.

Problem is doesn't install have to be registered with LABC before you can PIR?

 

[telectrix]

take his £1500, then pay LABC £300 to sign it off. everyone's a winner.

 

[Electricalserv]

take his £1500, then pay LABC £300 to sign it off. everyone's a winner.

It needs to be notified 30 days prior or a fine of upto £5000 and I think thats where he is pebble dashing himself....

 

[PMSERVICES]

If it is a new installtion then it has to be Part P self certified with an Installation Certificate to satisfy the local authority under building regs. They will not normally, unless uinder extreme circumstances, accept a PIR on a new installation.

 

[ezzzekiel]

for £1500 il drive to pool and cert it no problem

 

[ExArmy]

so whats the guys options then? either find somebody willing to put their name to it and issue an EIC, or get it ripped out and wired from scratch by a part P registered person?