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Hello everyone, I need some advice. I am a 61 year old apprentice served electrician. I have been " in the game for 45 years ". Mostly I have been employed by companies in the commercial and industrial side. After a recent illness and a lot of thought I've decided I don't want to work for anyone else ever again ! With the children grown up and the ex elsewhere I don't need to earn as much as many others ( although I won't be doing work on the cheap, undercutting other sparks ). I can get by changing light fittings, extra sockets, showers for Mrs Jones, cash jobs ( which I will declare to HMRC ). The biggest job I intend doing would be a consumer unit change over maybe even the odd rewire in an empty house. My question is, do I need to get part P or similar ? I have not got a test qualification or 17th ed regs, I gave up after 16 ! As I mentioned I am time served spark, JIB Approved and consider myself competent. Thank you for reading this thread.
 
In a word yes. If you gonna replace CU's, install new circuits all work within zones in special locations, you'll need to register with a scheme. And the scheme will expect some form of testing qualification & 17th ed regs. And you'll need an MFT.

Nice idea at 61, but you'll to splash out to get there. What are you doing now?
 
Ill close this thread as you have a similar thread already running with more replies, multiple threads on the same topic by the same person only lead to confuse members and create a headache for staff so please stick to one thread.
 

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