met cowboy spark today.

[pritch]

Went to a job today to fit new sw spur for cooker hood extract and supply eic cert for the ring I worked on. While I was there a guy was stood in the kitchen marking out the walls for sockets . The lady told me he was a local odd job man who is also tiling the wall . She said our company were to expensive to do the lot so he will do the rest . They only wanted me to do the extract and provide a cert which then allows our Fitters to plug in the appliances.I asked the guy if he had part p and he said he never heard of it. I then told the customer who couldn't care less. While the cowboy was just about to spur off the socket 3 times I told him to leave all the work until I've finished testing. What more can you do ?

 

[SimpleSimon]

You have to admit though pritch that you stoke your own fire. If I remember correctly at the end of last year you came on here and in another thread posted that your on about 60k ( or there abouts ) a year, and that you were only working 10 months a year. Now your telling us all about your warrior, you seem to wear your alleged earning potential and wealth as some kind of badge of honour mate, but then make remarks about completeing EIC paperwork when it is clearly just a MEIWC ................... Perhaps a little humilty may stop people having a dig

Your memory never ceases to amaze me Malcolm.

 

[nickblake]

don't like topics, they've got nuts in 'em

Remember the ad eh " What has a hazel nut in every bite " .......................................................Squirrel S****

 

[gazzaman241]

how do people manage without certs,reason i ask is,

i have done the 2391 / 2392 /17th edit and p.a.t. courses and passed although i wouldn`t class myself as an electrican as i havn`t done an elect apprenticeship,

my sons m8 bought the house next door and has had builders in there for the last 6 months completely renovating the house,i got to know them quite well over this time and when they ran the first fix i took particular attention to what they were doing.
when they were connecting up to the consumer unit on the second fix i asked them if any of them had done part p or any other courses, the reply was it was not worth them as they paid an electrican to come in and test, inspect and cert.

i tried to watch and not to look to nosey and observed that they had a electrician instauling the flat screen tv in the bathroom and with the fire alarms but all the rest of the circuits were done by the builder,even when he had a fault on a circuit in the kitchen and asked if he could borrow my tester to check it out save him going to get his.

how can you qualified boys compete when home owners are happy for these things to go on.

ps. i am a qualified mech with 30 yrs experiance, worked as part of a team with a good electrician for 17 yrs, wanted electricial experiance for my own benifit and the government paid for my courses but there are still a lot of things i wouldn`t even consider attempting

gazzaman241

 

[domestic spark]

There was a post not so long back where it was alleged a member of napit had lashed a couple of kitchens when working for a major diy chain.

So it just goes to show part p makes no little odds in the scheme of things. So why people are still fixated as to whether or not someone carrying out electrical work in domestic premises is part p registered is still a bit of a mystery.

Authorities ain't interested one bit what goes on, and more than likely sit about laughing at those people it bugs.

ive seen electrics done on b&q kitchens, and its not pretty!! oh no.

 

[tonys]

ive seen electrics done on b&q kitchens, and its not pretty!! oh no.

Was it your post I was referring too ? and an alleged member of napit ?

 

[domestic spark]

no it wasnt, but ive seen shoddy work go on on b&q jobs, and the customer has no idea!

 

[tonys]

Right, another spark came on a couple of weeks back said something along similar lines, he got his hands on the test certs as well and had to put the work right.

Loads of it going on by the sounds of it, but people trust the diy chain brand I would imagine.

 

[domestic spark]

hit the nail on the head tony!! its disgusting! but it goes on, as weve both proven

 

[LukeD]

What about British gas guys and their electrics? !! i had to help a few out in the Past.

Now what about the rumor that many certs are fake and even building control depts are been conned ? something about them and NICEIC etc not communicating . And the certs they and customers receive are not coming from NICEIC .

 

[rocker]

To be honest if someone's silly enough to allow B&Q, a bloody DIY chain, to allow their people into their homes to 'do it themselves', then that's their lookout.

 

[tonys]

hit the nail on the head tony!! its disgusting! but it goes on, as weve both proven

Things is mate, people love new fancy kitchens and and don't give a second thought to the wiring side things. I had a call out the other week and the kitchen was dirty in the sense rings were being made off spurs if you get what I mean.

Luke

British Gas charge £180.00 + for a fused spur ? wouldn't mind that money for myself lol

As for the nic certs, these things will never be resolved in the public domain if there coming from non members ?

 

[keefy]

British Gas? Had to go to a mates house when British gas condemned the electrical installation and isolated his boiler in 4 degrees weather. Why? The earth was 'Too high'. It was a TT system!

 

[cbw]

I drive a below average orange connect van...........................Yeehaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Not telling what the big red phallus is in my garage!!!!!!! (Rather spend my spare cash on that than a warrior)

 

[robsparky1975]

i got a 1911 model T ford lol

 

[DurhamSparky]

how ironic CBW has posted on this thread with out saying "oh you met DS then" lol..... were you been james!!