Self Employment

[peter1992]

I've been doing casual work helping an electrician on domestic jobs for a couple of years now and I am thinking about registering as self employed.
I spent last year at college doing 2330 level 2 and I am starting level 3 next week.
I have done the 17th edition and I am starting the 2391 in a couple of weeks with the exam at the start of December.
Will this be legal or do I need any more qualifications.

 

[Dazza1976]

What you have will be fine, the main requirement is that you need to be competent in what you are doing.
If you are going to be doing work that is notafiable e.g work carried out in a special location such as a bathroom, then you will need to join a scheme such as the NIC, Elecsa e.t.c otherwise you will have to pay very hefty fees to the lovable building control so called experts to come and check your work.

 

[peter1992]

Thats good.
I had been told by some one from business link that they thought I might need Part P.
I didn't think so but it had put doubts in my mind.

 

[Funkymonkeytoo]

You only need to go part p if you are going to or planning to sign off your own work, depending on how much work and what type it works out cheaper to be part p registered as local building control can charge upto £60 - £100 per job to sign off so if you are planning to do more than 5 jobs it will be better to pay the niceic the £500 yearly fee then it is £1.50 per part p thus paying for itself over 5 jobs.

Hope this helps ;-)

 

[ezzzekiel]

it will be better to pay the niceic the £500
Hope this helps ;-)

there are various scheme options not just the nic, at a yearly cost of approx £400, you will also need public liability and possibly indemnity insurance, along with calibrated test equipment and various publications (brb, osg etc)

 

[Funkymonkeytoo]

there are various scheme options not just the nic, at a yearly cost of approx £400, you will also need public liability and possibly indemnity insurance, along with calibrated test equipment and various publications (brb, osg etc)

Agreed there are plenty of other schemes out there but let's face it ask Joe public about elecsa, nappit ect they will not know what you are talking about as for the niceic most people have heard of and are more recognised ( for me I'd rather pay that little extra to be a member off the more recognised body).
But I guess it is all down to how much you can afford at the time

 

[ezzzekiel]

not really about the money, nic are arrogant, seem to have there own version of the regs and give very poor service to its members and in my experience are no more well known than any other scheme with exception of the very poor reputation given to their domestic installers. (this is my opinion no offence to antone who hold the nic in high regard)

having said that they are all interested in one thing only - your payment