Please can you give me some advice on my property (sorry for the long post and typo’s!), I had a large extension built this meant I had a new additional consumer box, new wiring, plugs, sockets etc. The builder did all the electrics himself, he was not qualified, he got a registered NAPTI engineer to give an electrical installation condition report at the end. There were problems with the electrics afterwards so I got another company to recheck all the electrics, they failed the original electrical installation condition report for numerous reasons. I cannot get hold of the NAPTI engineer, by phone or email or at all. NAPTI say they will not help me as I paid the builder and not the NAPTI engineer direct therefore they will not look into the engineer or the issue (this is in NAPTI’s terms and conditions) . The council accepted the condition report and passed building control on the house. They didn’t ask for an installation certificate. The builder will not come back and put anything right, he was paid in full when the council passed the property off. The NAPTI engineer has disappeared and I am now left with a quote for £7,000 to redo all the electrics in order to get an installation certificate. I have been told by several people that the council should have asked for an installation report but they didn’t and have said they don’t need to as they say - We accept electrical installation condition reports from NAPIT in lieu of a Part P installation certificate. Normally, we would arrange this with our designated partner company, but your contractors arranged it themselves -
The builder did not let them know before starting that he was doing the work himself and the council did not check his work at any point.
I have checked the government Building Regs 2010 / Electrical safety – dwellings and it does say – please see the attachment it says they can accept just an EICR no mention of a EIR.
I am not getting anywhere with the council, I cant tell if they should have asked for an installation certificate and I need to sell the house but cant without this certificate. It is all a mess and I just don’t know what to do I need someone to tell me whether the council have made an error. Even the council won’t let me know what they require at the end of a build, they just said an electrical certificate, which doesn’t help.
The builder did not let them know before starting that he was doing the work himself and the council did not check his work at any point.
I have checked the government Building Regs 2010 / Electrical safety – dwellings and it does say – please see the attachment it says they can accept just an EICR no mention of a EIR.
I am not getting anywhere with the council, I cant tell if they should have asked for an installation certificate and I need to sell the house but cant without this certificate. It is all a mess and I just don’t know what to do I need someone to tell me whether the council have made an error. Even the council won’t let me know what they require at the end of a build, they just said an electrical certificate, which doesn’t help.