Who do you give the EIC or MWC to?

[Octopus]

I'm coming across more and more clients who have Part P "certificate" but they haven't been given an EIC (or in some cases a MWC).

Irrespective of who "orders" the work, I always give a copy to the home owner .....

What do others do?

Just wondering................... if I am wasting my time doing the certs?

 

[westward10]

Exactly what you do, the home owner or client ordering the works.

 

[Deleted member 26818]

The person who ordered the work.

 

[ED17]

Mine go to the client as named on the cert.

 

[Midwest]

Likewise, but I've only ever come across one new customer that had been given a certificate for previous work, carried out by others.

 

[Octopus]

The person who ordered the work.

So if you are working for a builder, what's the point in giving it to them?

 

[Midwest]

So if you are working for a builder, what's the point in giving it to them?

Suppose the person who has asked for the work to be done is the client, unless the builder is constructing multiples of houses.

 

[Bob Geldoff1234]

I have been a qualified electrician for 32 years and in all that time i have never issued a MWC. Why,you ask? Nobody has ever asked me for one.I have my annual NIC inspection and they never ask to see any so why bother? I issue completion certificates and do EICR's which get a condition report but MWC...nope.I think you guy's are wasting your evenings filling them out.

 

[DPG]

I have been a qualified electrician for 32 years and in all that time i have never issued a MWC. Why,you ask? Nobody has ever asked me for one.I have my annual NIC inspection and they never ask to see any so why bother? I issue completion certificates and do EICR's which get a condition report but MWC...nope.I think you guy's are wasting your evenings filling them out.

Never issued them, or never filled any in at all?

 

[ED17]

Minor Works are the easiest ones to do. I like them.

 

[Octopus]

I have been a qualified electrician for 32 years and in all that time i have never issued a MWC. Why,you ask? Nobody has ever asked me for one.I have my annual NIC inspection and they never ask to see any so why bother? I issue completion certificates and do EICR's which get a condition report but MWC...nope.I think you guy's are wasting your evenings filling them out.

Really, never... So what do you do if you add a socket or light to an existing circuit .......?

 

[Bob Geldoff1234]

Do the job,do all the tests to make sure it's safe and get paid.
I am being serious when i say that no customers in 32 years have ever asked for a MWC.
The NIC/EIC have NEVER said 'Can we see your MWC certificates,please?'.
So if even they don't place much importance on them.
Nobody bothers with them so why should i spend time filling them in? As long as the job has been tested and deemed safe by myself then it's onto the next job

 

[Midwest]

Really, every time I have my assessment (Elecsa), the assessors cherry picks them, be it MW or EIC. If you can get away without doing them, well lucky you. That said, your obviously keeping records, why not a MW?

 

[ED17]

So if your customer doesn't ask for a completion cert do you not issue one?

 

[Ian1981]

To be fair they take all of 10 minutes to fill out and can be kept as a record of alterations/maintenance which can be helpful to anyone else who comes along possibly during an eicr