Discussion
Quick couple of questions
1. Is a fully qualified electrician obliged to supply a Part P certificate for work he carries out (for a job requiring building regs) and has been paid for or is this something that they normally charge extra to supply?
2. If a fully qualified electrician does a full rewire (eg £5k cost) on a house is he legally obliged to log this with the local authority and also provide a certificate for the work carried out?
cheers
1. Is a fully qualified electrician obliged to supply a Part P certificate for work he carries out (for a job requiring building regs) and has been paid for or is this something that they normally charge extra to supply?
2. If a fully qualified electrician does a full rewire (eg £5k cost) on a house is he legally obliged to log this with the local authority and also provide a certificate for the work carried out?
cheers
PH5121 said:
I do not know the latest position as don't do domestic work anymore so I may be a little out of date.
It used to be the case that to carry out notifiable work in a domestic residence required the electrician to be Part P registered with an approved body such as NIC-EIC, NAPIT, ELECSA.
Any work we carried out would be reported to the NIC-EIC who would notify building control and send a certificate of Part P compliance straight to the customer, we did not issue the Part P certification. We paid a fee to them for each job notified.
What we as a contractor would do regardless was issue in addition to the Part P documentation an electrical installation completion certificate for the works carried out to the client.
Has the work been carried out by a contractor or by an electrician who has done the work 'on the side'. If done by an electrician 'on the side' he would struggle to certify and notify the work. There was talk of being able to employ a third party to inspect the work of others, but I do not know if that has come into effect.
He's a full time qual self employed electrician - he didn't supply a cert at the time although he thinks he did and rather than asking him for a copy (he's a ****) I'd rather follow up with building people and also see if he submitted his part to them tooIt used to be the case that to carry out notifiable work in a domestic residence required the electrician to be Part P registered with an approved body such as NIC-EIC, NAPIT, ELECSA.
Any work we carried out would be reported to the NIC-EIC who would notify building control and send a certificate of Part P compliance straight to the customer, we did not issue the Part P certification. We paid a fee to them for each job notified.
What we as a contractor would do regardless was issue in addition to the Part P documentation an electrical installation completion certificate for the works carried out to the client.
Has the work been carried out by a contractor or by an electrician who has done the work 'on the side'. If done by an electrician 'on the side' he would struggle to certify and notify the work. There was talk of being able to employ a third party to inspect the work of others, but I do not know if that has come into effect.
He is part P reg - also if he carries out a job is he legally required to certify the work he has done or is this something that a spark would charge extra for (does it cost them anything to provide a cert/part P)?
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