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Don't think it was aimed at you Buzz you always reply with the best intentions.sorry, darkwood but some times when people ask questions on this forum and don't some times give the answers ,some times their go on the defensive.
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Don't think it was aimed at you Buzz you always reply with the best intentions.
So what your saying is no electrician firm can have people work for them eg.. mates/apprentices without their own electrical insurance?Any insurance he buys for electrical work will not be valid unless he is qualified and can prove competence
Don't be sorry for the essay mateI feel for you notyetaspark I went down the same sort of route. I wanted to be come a sparky and started at 22 so I was to old to get a proper apprenticeship and had to fund my own college while working for agency's. I did my full technical certificate while working for agency's as a mate while going to college a day a week and it is difficult.
The best advice I can give I to just work hard show them you can do the easy stuff and keep asking to do harder stuff and they will start giving you it. I got my first big break by offering to work on weekends as most sparks for the agency I worked for would not do weekends so it was usually just me and 1 actual spark and that's where I started doing the proper work helping him and maby I was lucky as he actually tried to teach me unlike some sparks you see on site. That's why when ever I work with mates now I always try to teach them and not just tell them to do this and that but actually try to teach them the ins and outs or it and why we are actually doing it and if any problems come up try and get them to have a think what needs doing before I tell them what to do.
It's a hard road when your not employed as a apprentice but you will get there in the end and if your any thing like I was you will end up with a load of experiance in many different sectors of electrical installation.
Good luck.
Sorry for the essay.
no.what was meant was that you need PL insurance for any jobs you do for yourself.aka foreigners/homers. as was also pointed out, though, if you are not considered competent, said insurance could be void.So what your saying is no electrician firm can have people work for them eg.. mates/apprentices without their own electrical insurance?
Thats what I sort of thought but he obviously didn't read the previous posts properly because not once did I say I was doing jobs for myself.no.what was meant was that you need PL insurance for any jobs you do for yourself.aka foreigners/homers. as was also pointed out, though, if you are not considered competent, said insurance could be void.
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