Part P Notification

[markythesparky]

a message for Andy M.

Sorry mate it doesnt get any better. they are money greedy so and so's. all they are interested in is clawing the next buck from the lowly approved contractor.

If you cancel you get billed.
If you have a half day assessment they will say its not enough and charge you another £250 for the extra 4 hours (which is usually no more than 2-3.).
They charge if you have a complaint and they find absolutely anything wrong at all (ie label on dis board missing). This can be £500!
They insist on you paying for Part P certification and then after a year of it they then come up with a another charge for insurance backed warranties or something. Which you have to pay.

You should wait until you get the first inspection, you will probably be missing a book or other publication that you can get through the NIC, you wont have a check box to test your tester and he will 'recommend' one through the NIC website. You wont have insulated steps and he wont be able to use yours under H & S laws!

Blah di Blah di Blah..........

Sorry......... gotta take a breath!

 

[Graeme Harrold]

Im new to it all, and find it quite flawed. Electricians seem to have been dragged into Part P simply to align with building regs. The whole system seems a little backwards in that there is far more red tape and regulation for domestic than any other part of the industry. Why didnt someone take the same concept of HV, LV and ELV to the domestic, comercial and industrial sectors and banding the skills within defined supply ratings e.g. making domestic installers capable of working on supplies up to 100A thus including small retail and commercial under one cover and doing away with the little gray areas.

I know the reporting system is different in Scotland (although the regs are practically the same), but how is it coping north of the border with regards to work and enforcement?

 

[CLB]

I've just joined Elecsa and, like the OP, a consumer unit swapout was one of the required tasks. I enquired before my assessment about notifying LABC about the CU change and a very helpful lady at Elecsa told me to go ahead with the swapout but date the paperwork a day or two before my assessment date as that would leave me a full 30 days for my assessment to go through (and any non-coms rectified) and my Elecsa membership and online account to be set up, after which I could notify LABC through my Elecsa membership. Seemed to make perfect sense to me and the whole process of joining a competent person's scheme as been simple and straightforward as it seems I've been dealing with competent people. :smiley2: