No Part P Certificate
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From your first post you asked what to do, from the information you gave in that post the answer is, do nothing.
Others are stating, the customer was charged twice for the same job, only once by you but still twice.
Out of interest, did the installation have any red & Black cable colours ?
Others are stating, the customer was charged twice for the same job, only once by you but still twice.
Out of interest, did the installation have any red & Black cable colours ?
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How I see this thread is....
A dodgy "electrician" carried out some work including a replacement consumer unit (to the regs at the time) and didn't certify or notify it.....Right ripped them off
Then you turn up,,, carry out some further works, replace the "compliant consumer unit", certify and notify the job and charge them for the work that you did.
Why replace e consumer unit that didn't necessarily need replacing????? that, by some, could be seen as ripping someone off
A dodgy "electrician" carried out some work including a replacement consumer unit (to the regs at the time) and didn't certify or notify it.....Right ripped them off
Then you turn up,,, carry out some further works, replace the "compliant consumer unit", certify and notify the job and charge them for the work that you did.
Why replace e consumer unit that didn't necessarily need replacing????? that, by some, could be seen as ripping someone off
How hard can it be to grasp? I changed the consumer unit because that is what they wanted me to do. Why are you not able to understand that?
So... did they just come out and say "could you please change our consumer unit",,,,,, or was there a discussion between you and them as to how it could be certified/notified before hand,,, with you saying that the only way that you could certify it would be if you'd carried out the work yourself????
Well i get it, may not agree but thats what the customer wanted.
Why did you choose the now non compliant consumer unit to replace & not rewire the whole house as its also not to latest regs ?
Why did you choose the now non compliant consumer unit to replace & not rewire the whole house as its also not to latest regs ?
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It's what they wanted, because you sowed the seeds of doubt by telling them that we now have to fit metal CU's. Rightly or wrongly you scared them into thinking that the CU fitted 2 months ago was somehow dangerous.
I am sorry but that is taking advantage.
I am not defending the first electrician who should at the very least have tested it properly and issued an EIC even if nothing else. BUT just because there was no paperwork does not automatically mean the replacement CU was fitted badly or in any way dangerous.
Did you find any faults with the installation that you had to correct before fitting your replacement CU? or was it in fact all okay except for the lack of paperwork?
And did you explain a metal CU is just as likely to catch fire, because putting it in a tin box has not addressed the reasons why it might catch fire, just merely tried to contain the fire, and it would appear that may not in fact work.
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I got called to quote a job last week as the EICR found some faults,
#1 was something along the lines of -
C1 plastic fuseboard non compliant as these have been decided to catch fire due to unknown circumstances, must be changed to a metal fusebox
Yes, it did say fusebox on the cert, it was a hager HI with 2x RCBOs and 2x RCDs,
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#1 was something along the lines of -
C1 plastic fuseboard non compliant as these have been decided to catch fire due to unknown circumstances, must be changed to a metal fusebox
Yes, it did say fusebox on the cert, it was a hager HI with 2x RCBOs and 2x RCDs,
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No, that's where i was, wondering why you hadn't rewired those old red & black cables along with the new metal c/u. He was next to the fridge.
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Ok No1, (personally I think you dealt a No2), please demonstrate with quote whereby someone here stated that YOU charged twice?
Secondly as clearly stated by our learned members there were other areas that were not compliant with current regs which you chose to ignore or did you explain to this vulnerable couple that the colour of their cables was non compliant, probably not why because you thought that was ok however a plastic consumer unit wasn't? So in your own admission the board needed to be changed as it wasn't compliant IYO, but the old cables were compliant so didn't need to be changed?
And yes this is getting silly, you completely fail to see the error?
Secondly as clearly stated by our learned members there were other areas that were not compliant with current regs which you chose to ignore or did you explain to this vulnerable couple that the colour of their cables was non compliant, probably not why because you thought that was ok however a plastic consumer unit wasn't? So in your own admission the board needed to be changed as it wasn't compliant IYO, but the old cables were compliant so didn't need to be changed?
And yes this is getting silly, you completely fail to see the error?
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Oh and what's a part p certificate?
Is that not what you get when you complete a part p course?
Is that not what you get when you complete a part p course?
yes, he's got one. no idea why a CU change will need one to say its done a course though, maybe it should do a course in how not to explode?
This one i saw yesterday must be ok then, its all metal
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