Plumber needs training to gain Part P

[Jim Goodenough]

Hi,

I'm a fully qualified plumber and do a lot of bathroom fitting. I'm considering getting training for Part P to enable me to sign off electrical work in bathrooms.

Please advise on training courses and costs in the Tyne and Wear region.

MTIA

 

[telectrix]

And when we work as a team we can boil them!

maybe need the wood butchers on board to chop them up first.

 

[Toneyz]

maybe need the wood butchers on board to chop them up first.

They'll fix the cables with a nail gun or grip fill.

 

[markc123]

Hi,

I'm a fully qualified plumber and do a lot of bathroom fitting. I'm considering getting training for Part P to enable me to sign off electrical work in bathrooms.

Please advise on training courses and costs in the Tyne and Wear region.

MTIA

Lol.

“Signing off electrical work”

You’re a plumber not a spark stick to your own trade. Part-P isn’t a qualification it’s a building reg.

This thread is ridiculous.

 

[123]

Have you got a reliable good spark on board at the moment? If so I'd stick with that.

Have you given consideration as to how much this would cost? Even if you are competent and have the skill set you'd need time off to get your qualifications and training. Then there is insurance. Test Kit. Regs Books. Calibration of Test Kit. Test Software possibly. Scheme membership. Some different tools.

Personally if it was me I'd seek to get a good spark on board and get him/her to quote for each bathroom job and stick 15-20% on their price for running the job.

 

[ChrisElectrical88]

This is a wind up. 100% must be

 

[Silly Sausage]

I considered going the other way once, get my gas certs (work I was involved in at the time).
Checked out the cost, time and effort to do it, wasn't worth it.

 

[JK-Electrical]

My own view is that life would be so much easier if plumbers stuck to doing plumbing work and hired electricians do their electrical work. Whenever I need a shower unit installed, I hire a plumber and build his fee into the cost of the job. Although I'm a competent electrician, I'm absolutely useless at plumbing and consider the risk of bodging the job and flooding someone's home to outweigh the small profit I would make from eliminating the services of a plumber from the equation. I wish plumbers would take a similar view of electrical work.

 

[GBDamo]

Top trolling Jim, orwhichever mod is behind JIM.

 

[Taylortwocities]

Most of the CPS (NAPIT/NECIEC, etc) have a defined scope level. This allows plumbers (eg) to do minor works, like adding a spur, electric work in a bathroom when it is in association with plumbing work ( don’t know who polices this!). Defined scope plumbers aren’t allowed to install new consumer units, full rewires, etc.

But the amount of test equipment and other stuff would make it hard to justify IMO.
As above, better if you have a friendly spark on hand yo do stuff for you.

 

[Toneyz]

Most of the CPS (NAPIT/NECIEC, etc) have a defined scope level. This allows plumbers (eg) to do minor works, like adding a spur, electric work in a bathroom when it is in association with plumbing work ( don’t know who polices this!). Defined scope plumbers aren’t allowed to install new consumer units, full rewires, etc.

This is what should have happened in the first place.

 

[telectrix]

This is what should have happened in the first place.

but then niceic and the other scams would not make as much money to bloat their huge salaries and pensions.

 

[westward10]

Not all plumbers are that bad, new boiler fitted last week this is the mains cable chopped into another supply.

 

[solarsavings]

looks ideal.

 

[telectrix]

looks ideal.

i thought it was baxi.

 

[MDJ]

What else do I need please?

A brain