Part P...how i hate thee...

[Shakey]

The biggest con with Part P is that the people who actually police it are the Local Councils Building Control and from what I have seen in Southampton these people have vertually no electrical qualifications at all.

totally agree with you - they make up the rules as they go along.

"yes you can do the job, but you will have to get a NICEIC registered electrician to check it for you"

"Why? Whats NICEIC got to do with anything, and anyway, i'm ok thanks, i am competent to install, test and inspect my own work"

"but you have to have 2391"

"no you dont, and anyway, I not only have 2391, I teach 2391"

"But you are not a memebr of a competent persons scheme"

"But that doesnt mean I not competent!"

and on and on and on

they haven't got a freekin clue

 

[RABEC]

I do agree with you shakey on the blurry line of competent and not competent and who can and can't do the work.
My beef is only to weed out the can't do's not the can do's.
cos theres alot of people out there trading without no skills..never mind quals or part p.
there must be a way for the competents to be recognised as being able to do the work.
the part p thing is daft cos alot of incompetent folk can be registered and folk who know the job inside out not.
basically the whole thing needs a shake up so those who can do it do and those who can't don't...and a way that also isnt an underhanded way to get money out of us.