Hello
I saw a similar question on here so though I would join up and ask my question so the answer is here for reference.
Simply put, if I pay the local authority building control to approve an electrical installation, is it as good as having an electrcian do it in temr sof what I end up with if I should sell my house?
I understand that the work has to be PART P compliant (which makes it building regulations compliant?) and also safe with something called an EIC.
Will the local authority give me both?
My story is this:
I employed an ELECSA approved electrician to first fix and second fix a new build.
The electrician got his sole member of staff to do the wiring for the upstairs.
After that he never came back - it has been 3 months now and I cannot wait for him any longer. He has sacked his employee.
His employee is obviously a competent electrcian and I am happy to employ him directly.
However, the employee is not able to certify jobs in his own right. He has applied to join one of the approved schemes but they have told him he cannot certify my house as it was started by another company - even though he has done all the work. Technically he could probably tell the council it is all his own work but he probably wouldn't.
My options as I understand are
1) find an electrician to carry on and who will certify in his name. This is likely to be a pain - all of the wiring is exposed for them to check it out - but I suspect getting anyone interested will be a pain and time consuming
2) I can use the LABC to check it out and approve it
3) I can use a third party operator (like NAPIT) to get someone to do the approval rather than the LABC. One advantage of going this route is that I might find an electrician who will take on work started by someone else.
Ideally I want to go for option 2 - get the employe to do the job and get it signed off by building control. The employee is available to do it now and knows whats what.
As mentioned, we are still in first fix stage so all of the wiring can be seen. I suppose I can get building control on site whilst electrician is doing the downstairs first fix or at the end of the first fix when all wiring is done.
So going back to my question - if I go down option 2 do I end up with anything less than if the original electrician had done it? As I understand Part P says that the job complies with building regulations - which is presumably what building control are saying? The electrician then also does a test to ensure everything is safe/works.
Thanks
I saw a similar question on here so though I would join up and ask my question so the answer is here for reference.
Simply put, if I pay the local authority building control to approve an electrical installation, is it as good as having an electrcian do it in temr sof what I end up with if I should sell my house?
I understand that the work has to be PART P compliant (which makes it building regulations compliant?) and also safe with something called an EIC.
Will the local authority give me both?
My story is this:
I employed an ELECSA approved electrician to first fix and second fix a new build.
The electrician got his sole member of staff to do the wiring for the upstairs.
After that he never came back - it has been 3 months now and I cannot wait for him any longer. He has sacked his employee.
His employee is obviously a competent electrcian and I am happy to employ him directly.
However, the employee is not able to certify jobs in his own right. He has applied to join one of the approved schemes but they have told him he cannot certify my house as it was started by another company - even though he has done all the work. Technically he could probably tell the council it is all his own work but he probably wouldn't.
My options as I understand are
1) find an electrician to carry on and who will certify in his name. This is likely to be a pain - all of the wiring is exposed for them to check it out - but I suspect getting anyone interested will be a pain and time consuming
2) I can use the LABC to check it out and approve it
3) I can use a third party operator (like NAPIT) to get someone to do the approval rather than the LABC. One advantage of going this route is that I might find an electrician who will take on work started by someone else.
Ideally I want to go for option 2 - get the employe to do the job and get it signed off by building control. The employee is available to do it now and knows whats what.
As mentioned, we are still in first fix stage so all of the wiring can be seen. I suppose I can get building control on site whilst electrician is doing the downstairs first fix or at the end of the first fix when all wiring is done.
So going back to my question - if I go down option 2 do I end up with anything less than if the original electrician had done it? As I understand Part P says that the job complies with building regulations - which is presumably what building control are saying? The electrician then also does a test to ensure everything is safe/works.
Thanks
