@Taylortwocities if you read the above you will see I did say I suspect I will never get any third party work due to the stringent requirements, so to answer your question - none. However I would charge my normal rate ÂŁ35 p.h.
Stroma, I was with NIC but the renewal was nigh on ÂŁ800 I just thought I don't care if you are more popular I am just not paying that it is not worth it, and I find them rude brusque and arrogant. Maybe if I turned over a lot more but no not at my level. And the thing about Stroma, apart from people mistaking it for colon care, is that I am registered for third party certification. You can not do that with NIC, they will not allow it. I don't know who they think they are.
I see you've disagreed with my post mate, fine but I really don't see why. I wasn't claiming the NIC are the best, you are correct in noting their arrogance. However I would still maintain they are the only scheme widely known.
I'd be interested to know if anyone has ever opened an enquiry to you regarding work with..."before I ask you to quote, are you Stroma approved"?
Stroma, I was with NIC but the renewal was nigh on ÂŁ800 I just thought I don't care if you are more popular I am just not paying that it is not worth it, and I find them rude brusque and arrogant. Maybe if I turned over a lot more but no not at my level. And the thing about Stroma, apart from people mistaking it for colon care, is that I am registered for third party certification. You can not do that with NIC, they will not allow it. I don't know who they think they are.
I see you've disagreed with my post mate, fine but I really don't see why. I wasn't claiming the NIC are the best, you are correct in noting their arrogance. However I would still maintain they are the only scheme widely known.
I'd be interested to know if anyone has ever opened an enquiry to you regarding work with..."before I ask you to quote, are you Stroma approved"?
My disagree with your post was absolutely nothing personal. It was really more a comment on the fact that I have not met anyone in forty or more years who has asked about NIC or even has the faintest clue of what any of these schemes are about. I do try to explain to customers, their eyes glaze over and they go all vague and start wandering off in a trance. In my experience despite all the hype most people haven't a clue about schemes and really are not interested. It is all a storm in the tea-cup of electricians alone. Everyone else in the world could not give a flying feck, its only us that are obsessed with it oh yeh and the carpetbaggers pickpocketing our hard earned alongside all the other buzzards circling.
And furthermore...In my opinion on a legal level the contracts formed with the certifying bodies are contracts made under duress and hold no validity whatsoever. If you are not part of a cps and undertake work you may be fined and even imprisoned, under those circumstances who would NOT sign up and fork over the blood money demanded. That is a contract made under duress and if I had the energy I would be campaigning to bring these people to court and have them pilloried before the public in stocks with rotten eggs and vegetables thrown at them. In the real world where I reside none of these schemes actually make a jot of difference to poor work I have encountered since 1974 to date.
Blame John Prescott who was DPM at the timeand presided over the whole sorry mess.
Why, oh why didn't they have just one scheme - like CORGI/GasSafe - then everybody would know where they were.
They probably did not want to, or couldn't because NICEIC would have been the only choice to be that organisation, and that would have been unfair competition/or something to do with a monopoly.
When I started the only card you get was the JIB grading card which the guy I worked for got for me. It did not mean a thing to me I had no idea what the card meant, never carried it or flashed it (oops) have no idea where it went from the time I was handed it. Schemes? no such thing. I say if you have your exams and experience you are an electrician end of. Talk about gilding a lily!
My disagree with your post was absolutely nothing personal. It was really more a comment on the fact that I have not met anyone in forty or more years who has asked about NIC or even has the faintest clue of what any of these schemes are about. I do try to explain to customers, their eyes glaze over and they go all vague and start wandering off in a trance. In my experience despite all the hype most people haven't a clue about schemes and really are not interested. It is all a storm in the tea-cup of electricians alone. Everyone else in the world could not give a flying feck, its only us that are obsessed with it oh yeh and the carpetbaggers pickpocketing our hard earned alongside all the other buzzards circling.
I didn't think it was personal....but we are fairly often asked about NICEIC or informed we are working because of NICEIC membership, that is a fact. I think you are wrong in saying that nobody outside of the trade is aware of the NICEIC, they are probably not aware of Stroma though . Other than that I agree entirely with what you say!
All schemes are parasites, NICEIC not least.
Good I'm glad you didn't take it personal like. I would venture to suggest that it is mostly social housing providers principally, that ask for NIC and of course in my opinion even if they accepted Stroma I would not work in that area even if they paid me triple, hence I rarely encounter the breed of errrmm client I suppose you might call them. I usually deal with ordinary people who just want a job done, commercially and domestic (not so much) I stand by the fact that nobody has asked me about any scheme in forty-five years though.
My mate works as a kitchen fitter, he fits for Homebase at times, and they require him to use an NICEIC electrician.
So for him to retain the services of one he has then to use them for all his jobs. Even though he may only fit 1 kitchen a month or less sometimes.
I know that B&Q changed their policy in the last few years, now using only NIC electricians for kitchen refurbs'. Had one of their kitchen fitter sub contractors ring me, asking if I was with NIC. Luckily I said no, Elecsa!
The third party part is getting electricians doing the job of building control inspectors as they are so overwhelmed all you are doing is allowing electricians inspecting at each stage or that's how it should be being done .Is there any forum members out there who undertake third party?.
I think collectively the above comments regards larger concerns insisting on NIC are in fact proof of my point about the ignorance of the CPS problem. Nobody has heard or will countenance anyone but NIC, why? Because they are as ignorant of what it is all about as the average householder. They hear the buzzword NIC and everyone jumps on the bandwagon. These are the people who when God said "Brains" thought he said trains and took the first one out. This monopoly needs to be broken anyone a member of any scheme should have the same opportunities to tender as any NIC member we are equal whatever scheme. I mean dammit, you can't even join ECA if you're not NIC. That is a monopoly! I vote you all leave NIC now! This will force change so that as a Stroma member I can take your jobs, ok chaps?
I think collectively the above comments regards larger concerns insisting on NIC are in fact proof of my point about the ignorance of the CPS problem. Nobody has heard or will countenance anyone but NIC, why? Because they are as ignorant of what it is all about as the average householder. They hear the buzzword NIC and everyone jumps on the bandwagon. These are the people who when God said "Brains" thought he said trains and took the first one out. This monopoly needs to be broken anyone a member of any scheme should have the same opportunities to tender as any NIC member we are equal whatever scheme. I mean dammit, you can't even join ECA if you're not NIC. That is a monopoly! I vote you all leave NIC now! This will force change so that as a Stroma member I can take your jobs, ok chaps?
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