NAPIT assessment for Electrical Inspector

[Michal Zapalski]

Hello fellow sparks
I have a question regarding NAPIT assessment I'm due to have soon. I'm getting Electrical Inspector Scheme and Third Party Certification. I'm not sure what to expect. Can you share me your experience and help me prepare to this important assessment. All answers are very welcome.
Thanks a lot

 

[Dustydazzler]

About 3 or 4 years ago I was going to start offering 3rd party sign offs as part of my business. Was thinking of charging around ££400-450 fee for a 1hour site visit mid-install and followed by me testing and notifying the job at the end...It never did come to anything

 

[rewireIT]

About 3 or 4 years ago I was going to start offering 3rd party sign offs as part of my business. Was thinking of charging around ££400-450 fee for a 1hour site visit mid-install and followed by me testing and notifying the job at the end...It never did come to anything

Why would it? Cheaper for them to notify it themselves

 

[Dustydazzler]

Why would it? Cheaper for them to notify it themselves

A home-owner / DIYer doing their own full re-wire and board change won't have an MFT.

My business idea was to do a 1 hour site visit , look at what they have done , offer some advice if they need it and even offer to help with the job at my hourly rate. Then once they had finished the job I would allow 1/2 day to test and inspect everything, produce them a EIC and Notify the work.

The local BC wouldn't offer that kind of service for 400 quid

 

[Michal Zapalski]

Recently that has changed, you need to supply three addresses for them to randomly choose a job to inspect. So you need three jobs now. If you are just joining I suppose you have produced all your qualifications. They

may want to look at them again. They did with me. It has got a lot stricter now. I agree with the Third party, far too much of a pfaff so I don't do that but sometimes do it anyway without their approval. Depends who is doing the job and me being able to test and proscribe methods etc.

Thank you. I suppose I need to double check with them what their requirements are.

 

[Vortigern]

show them three jobs

Yeh this is a new one on me, but my annual was just a couple of months ago and it did suddenly change after I have booked the assessment they got in touch, so must be very recent! Which is no problem for me, just saying..

 

[oracle]

Hello fellow sparks
I have a question regarding NAPIT assessment I'm due to have soon. I'm getting Electrical Inspector Scheme and Third Party Certification. I'm not sure what to expect. Can you share me your experience and help me prepare to this important assessment. All answers are very welcome.
Thanks a lot

I've never bothered with third party Certification, if I come after the installation is complete, it gets an EICR, not a certificate. If I don't see it, I don't sign it.

 

[Yellowhammer]

If you are brand new out the box qualified how will you have 3 finished notifiable jobs to show someone ?

As someone currently looking at getting myself on a certification scheme I have struggled with comprehending this across all schemes. Part of the appeal of NAPIT over NICEIC was only requiring one job. I don't do masses of work, just some on the side for pocket money, due to not being part of a scheme these are currently minor works. I have 1 job which will soon need an EIR, which I took on specifically for this, and agreed with the client that they are happy for the inspector to visit. I was planning on completing this and then booking my assessment so as to have it within the grace period of notification, boldly assuming my passing (the assessment), then notifying via my new NAPIT membership.

This approach won't work so well if I need 3 jobs!