Electrical Rewire - Advice needed!

[Mike66]

I appreciate that the electricians have to be NICEIC approved contractors and have the ability to provide an Electrical Installation Certificate upon completion. Is there anything else I should know?

Any and all advice/information is much appreciated![/QUOTE]

I agree entirely. This is going to cause some controvery but at least if you go for someone who is NICEIC Approved you know that they are going to be properly qualified and not your Electrical Trainee that can come with the part p installers. They will still need to be part p registered but most approved contractors will be. I have always looked at if that back in 1985 we chose to become Niceic approved. Not because some idiot in parliment told us to but because we wanted to be regulated and inspected because we had nothing to hide and were confident that our work complied with the regulations of the time. IMO the niceic have always been looked down upon by those who wanted to do as they please. There biggest mistake was to sale their souls and join the other money making brigades

 

[Adam W]

plus smokes!

Yes, those as well! Mains powered, interlinked, CO detector anywhere with gas appliances, heat detector in the kitchen... Also TV points, telephone points, socket in the loft for booster amplifier.... All things to consider.

 

[Octopus]

Yes, those as well! Mains powered, interlinked, CO detector anywhere with gas appliances, heat detector in the kitchen... Also TV points, telephone points, socket in the loft for booster amplifier.... All things to consider.

CAT5 or 6, garage power, shed power, underfloor heating, this list just goes on and on!

 

[Plonker 3]

They will still need to be part p registered

No they don't.

 

[Plonker 3]

I agree entirely. This is going to cause some controvery but at least if you go for someone who is NICEIC Approved you know that they are going to be properly qualified and not your Electrical Trainee that can come with the part p installers. They will still need to be part p registered but most approved contractors will be. I have always looked at if that back in 1985 we chose to become Niceic approved. Not because some idiot in parliment told us to but because we wanted to be regulated and inspected because we had nothing to hide and were confident that our work complied with the regulations of the time. IMO the niceic have always been looked down upon by those who wanted to do as they please. There biggest mistake was to sale their souls and join the other money making brigades

Makes sense now lol

I know my NICEIC inspector would be telling me I shouldnt be doing it. He made a comment when I installed a cooker isolator switch in a cupboard as per customers request.

Do you ever have inspections?

 

[Geordie Spark]

and male sure they are part p register

Be careful making comments like that or you'll have all the female sparkies baying for your blood !!

 

[trev]

![/QUOTE]

I agree entirely. This is going to cause some controvery but at least if you go for someone who is NICEIC Approved you know that they are going to be properly qualified and not your Electrical Trainee that can come with the part p installers. [/QUOTE]
Utter nonsense! I know of two 5 week wonders who have AC status with NICEIC, one of them didn't even have enough work to show so "borrowed" some off a similarly underqualified fool.
So much for stringent checking and vetting eh.

 

[Plonker 3]

Trev its not even that. The fact you can pay LABC direct for notification puts any Electrical Trainee blagging in it way out the window of being a member of a scam.

 

[micknew]

We'll soon have more Romanian plus Bulgarian 'electricians' to contend with.

 

[Geordie Spark]

I bet the OP is pleased she came to this forum for advice !!! :rofl: