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Daniel81

Hi all,
Please don't slate me, saying i should know this already, im asking for advice not a dig.
i have not long started up my new business and have i have just taken on my first big job. im fully qualified and registered with Benchmark. So heres the job, a complete renovation of an old property, on my side and electrical wise its a complete rewire and many additions, outside lighting, LED Bath panel lighting, kitchen Pelmet LED lighting, Testing & Inspecting etc etc. heres the questions,
1- what certificates should i use, due to it being a rewire plus additions.
2- He has first fixed the downstairs ( house is set out as, bedrooms, bathroom downstairs, living room, kitchen upstairs) i would like to dead test the circuits, however without testing each individual piece of cable due to him terminating each cable in the patresses etc, he has not added accessories just terminated the cable. what's your recommendations. ive heard of bad results from using connector blocks and i dont think is good practice, i could be wrong, im asking.
3- The LED in bath panel- the bath panel will be marble, i do not fancy due to my inexperience drilling into a ÂŁ300 piece of marble.
4- He has the power distribution company coming out to move the position of the mains incoming. as currently its down stairs connected to the distribution board, and he wants it moved upstairs, could i not just insert a cut off switch and take the tails to the upstairs, inside regulations, to the the distribution board. saving him a couple of grand. or just let him crack on and waste his money.

If your thinking ive bitten off more than i can chew, maybe your right, but i need to learn and i work is slow so i cant turn it down.
All help is mega appreciated.
cheers guys/girls

Dan
 
I know everyone had to start somewhere but this forum is possibly not the best place to start by saying you are a fully qualified electrician then asking questions that cause concern, I don't know you so will keep it civil, but honestly do feel you need to have more knowledge and a better understanding first.

Do you mind me asking what qualifications you hold?
 
Daniel. I think bottom line on this.....DO NOT sign off anything u havent done yourself. For one job u could risk your whole career.

Everyone posting is doing so in your best interest. Tell the customer you will do the work but get LABC in to sign it off.
 
Daniel. I think bottom line on this.....DO NOT sign off anything u havent done yourself. For one job u could risk your whole career.

Everyone posting is doing so in your best interest. Tell the customer you will do the work but get LABC in to sign it off.

Sound advice, also I don't think he would be able to sign off and notify as what's Benchmark??? It's not a body I've ever heard of.
 
whoos work are you `taking over`?...is this some builder who has got one of his jobeys to drag/yank some cable about....then your supposed to go in there and sign it iff?
its meant to be a start tomorrow morning. Its been blown out of proportion, not by yourself. if there is anything im not happy with it will take 2 seconds to change as its all visible and accessible. All i was asking for was a bit of friendly advice like, let the Distributor move the incoming mains if your not paying for it. Any technical advice can be researched through numerous publications.But all i got was a wave of crap of others.
Anyway, night night pal. im off to bed.
 
Closest thing I can think of is when you notify a job and it gets a 6 year (?) Workmanship guarantee from the scheme operator

PI suppose Benchmark have to offer this as nobody has heard of them so they have to, just to make them look good, but if you go with a more known body then people hopefully assume the person doing the work is of good standard but that's a different thread...
 
Any technical advice can be researched through numerous publications.But all i got was a wave of crap.

Theres still 15 mins until tomorrow, it's not too late to back out, it would be better to do that than what could potentially come of this. I wish you well with the job but feel its going to be a bumpy (rough) ride.
 
Ok slight change of tone...I am sorry.

Has anyone checked out the benchmark???

It looked seriously expensive but I looked at the requirements to join. I am tired but im sure I just read you only need 17th edition and public liability. With an option of 6084 c&g. Google told me it was energy efficiency qualification. Wtf???
 
its meant to be a start tomorrow morning. Its been blown out of proportion, not by yourself. if there is anything im not happy with it will take 2 seconds to change as its all visible and accessible. All i was asking for was a bit of friendly advice like, let the Distributor move the incoming mains if your not paying for it. Any technical advice can be researched through numerous publications.But all i got was a wave of crap of others.
Anyway, night night pal. im off to bed.
well this is cast in stone anyway as the cutout+incoming cabling is DNO property...
 

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