Taking the Part P

[RWJ]

A little quiz for you......

I work for a Small to Medium M&E Contractor in the East of England...

18 Months ago we were notifying an average of 20 - 30 Part P jobs a month...

Guess how many Part P jobs we have notified THIS YEAR???

 

[mogga]

10 ? 1000?

 

[malcolmsanford]

I'm hoping that it is none as you are now just doing proper electrical work in the commercial/industrial sector ............lol that's upset a few.

I would say less than 10 and that is becasue less and less people are bothering to get scheme affiliated sparks in.

 

[RWJ]

Nill, Zero, Zilch, NONE!!!!!

Although I thought it was all bad until I looked at the DPIR (Domestic PIRS) we issued 11 in March and having a quick look allot seem to be us going in after cowboys.

This one's my favourite.
Customer and EDF have requested we attend ****************************************** Belton, Gt Yarmouth NR31 ***. After electrician blew main fuse while doing board change, EDF won't reconnect with out PIR.


It seems people are taking the cheapest route... but (some) having the sense to call some one in that knows what they are doing when it goes wrong.


I spoke to a landlady who owns 6 flats, she genuinely thought she should pay an electrician........
Wait for it........
£5 ph
As that's what the last guy charged.... Cash In hand!!
I did inform her this was under the minimum wage!!!

 

[mogga]

£5 an hour a rumble in the hay n no notification no gaurentee no insurance claim should anything go wrong FFS when will people learn

 

[RWJ]

£5 an hour a rumble in the hay n no notification no gaurentee no insurance claim should anything go wrong FFS when will people learn

People don't care..... We obviously have no hope of competing....
The minimum wage (not that we get the minimum wage) + NI + TAX + VAT already prices us out, that's without having to fuel, tax, insure or service the vans

 

[topquark]

Nill, Zero, Zilch, NONE!!!!!

Although I thought it was all bad until I looked at the DPIR (Domestic PIRS) we issued 11 in March and having a quick look allot seem to be us going in after cowboys.

This one's my favourite.
Customer and EDF have requested we attend ****************************************** Belton, Gt Yarmouth NR31 ***. After electrician blew main fuse while doing board change, EDF won't reconnect with out PIR.


It seems people are taking the cheapest route... but (some) having the sense to call some one in that knows what they are doing when it goes wrong.


I spoke to a landlady who owns 6 flats, she genuinely thought she should pay an electrician........
Wait for it........
£5 ph
As that's what the last guy charged.... Cash In hand!!
I did inform her this was under the minimum wage!!!

So, dare I ask, why couldn't the "electrician" do the PIR?

 

[RWJ]

So, dare I ask, why couldn't the "electrician" do the PIR?

I think the customer threw him out, after wiping out the main fuse

 

[RogertheBodger]

People don't care..... We obviously have no hope of competing....
The minimum wage (not that we get the minimum wage) + NI + TAX + VAT already prices us out, that's without having to fuel, tax, insure or service the vans

Do you think it's the case that Part P is having the opposite effect from that intended?
In that more and more people are shying away from employing a skilled Electrician, and getting cheap labour, or even doing the job themselves, and so increasing the amount of unsafe or dangerous installations?