Hi all, I'm wondering if anyone can shed a bit of light on this for me.
I'm a fully qualified electrician, and have been for a lot of years and all my qualifications are up to date. Technically I work for the local council but we have since been privatized and now I work for a big corporation doing the same work for the council, but that's basically more commercial and street furniture work. Our company is an NIC approved contractor and I'm registered with them, have my gold card and currently due to be assessed to be our new QS. I test and sign off on a lot of our work but all the planning and hand over side of it is done by management and admin above my head so I never deal with these things and am at a bit of a loss now. I know my way around domestic work as you would expect but never do it day to day, just odd jobs that I manage to squeeze onto minor works.
I've agreed to help out some close friends of mine who need a rewire, they don't have a lot of cash so I said I'd do it for them but am just trying to work out how I go about notifying on the works. I rang up the council and explained my position and that I was doing a full rewire and change of CCU to the team leader at the BC dept, and all he seemed to be able to repeat at me were the words "competent person scheme". I explained I wasn't part of one myself as I work for a large company and technically them and sign of lots of work for his dept but all he could then tell me was ok that's fine, just give your friends a "Part P cert". I'm not sure what that is, I have to be honest. I told him I'd be giving them an EIC and he basically said yeah that's all you need to do and that's fine. I asked him wasn't there something I need to pay and send a copy of the cert to him and he said no as long as you're part of a competent person scheme. I pointed out I wasn't again. He told me to give my friends the cert. At this point I sighed and gave up. This doesn't sound right to me and I don't wan't to leave myself open or my friends in bother if they ever decide to sell the house and it flags up.
Going through my company won't likely be an option as It's too big of a beast and I'm just a number, I know I may be able to sort it on the fly once I'm the branch QS and have met the NIC and HEA assessors a bit more, but to be honest that could be a few months and I just want to do the job above board. So I'm hoping someone here can explain to me what I need to do, If I need to pay that's fine, but who do I pay and where/what needs to be submitted and how. If I'm honest, I don't really even understand all the crack with Part P, other than it's a vague document that's part of the building regs. I recently went and redid the EAL inspection and testing course just to refresh my tickets as I'd last done it in my apprenticeship and it was 2391 at 16th Ed. The tutor on that course basically told me Part P was a load of b*llocks and that it would be gone soon. All this seems to be a bit all over the place and as I say, I just want to know I'm colouring between the lines as it was.
Any advice will be much appreciated.
Cheers,
Kris
I'm a fully qualified electrician, and have been for a lot of years and all my qualifications are up to date. Technically I work for the local council but we have since been privatized and now I work for a big corporation doing the same work for the council, but that's basically more commercial and street furniture work. Our company is an NIC approved contractor and I'm registered with them, have my gold card and currently due to be assessed to be our new QS. I test and sign off on a lot of our work but all the planning and hand over side of it is done by management and admin above my head so I never deal with these things and am at a bit of a loss now. I know my way around domestic work as you would expect but never do it day to day, just odd jobs that I manage to squeeze onto minor works.
I've agreed to help out some close friends of mine who need a rewire, they don't have a lot of cash so I said I'd do it for them but am just trying to work out how I go about notifying on the works. I rang up the council and explained my position and that I was doing a full rewire and change of CCU to the team leader at the BC dept, and all he seemed to be able to repeat at me were the words "competent person scheme". I explained I wasn't part of one myself as I work for a large company and technically them and sign of lots of work for his dept but all he could then tell me was ok that's fine, just give your friends a "Part P cert". I'm not sure what that is, I have to be honest. I told him I'd be giving them an EIC and he basically said yeah that's all you need to do and that's fine. I asked him wasn't there something I need to pay and send a copy of the cert to him and he said no as long as you're part of a competent person scheme. I pointed out I wasn't again. He told me to give my friends the cert. At this point I sighed and gave up. This doesn't sound right to me and I don't wan't to leave myself open or my friends in bother if they ever decide to sell the house and it flags up.
Going through my company won't likely be an option as It's too big of a beast and I'm just a number, I know I may be able to sort it on the fly once I'm the branch QS and have met the NIC and HEA assessors a bit more, but to be honest that could be a few months and I just want to do the job above board. So I'm hoping someone here can explain to me what I need to do, If I need to pay that's fine, but who do I pay and where/what needs to be submitted and how. If I'm honest, I don't really even understand all the crack with Part P, other than it's a vague document that's part of the building regs. I recently went and redid the EAL inspection and testing course just to refresh my tickets as I'd last done it in my apprenticeship and it was 2391 at 16th Ed. The tutor on that course basically told me Part P was a load of b*llocks and that it would be gone soon. All this seems to be a bit all over the place and as I say, I just want to know I'm colouring between the lines as it was.
Any advice will be much appreciated.
Cheers,
Kris