becoming a domestic electrician !!confused!!

[johnoconnor]

hi I am looking if someone can guide me in the right direction i currently i qualified electrical engineer and work a 4 on 4 off pattern but i am wanting to see how to become a domestic electrician below are the current qualifications i already hold and i am going to do the 17th edition first amendment soon so any advice on what else I will need to acquire will be a great help cheers
current qualification:
BTEC national certificate level 3 (electrical/electronic engineering)
National Vocational Qualification level 3 (engineering maintenance (electrical))
semta modern aprenticeship in engineering

 

[snowhead]

Why do you want to step backwards?

 

[trev]

All the info you need is on the CPS operator's various websites mate. Best advice though, stay where you are it's tough out there in DI land.

 

[dazo]

Mate your over qualified all you need is a 5 week course and a wad of cash

 

[Darkwood]

You are confused!!! you hold a higher job and want to step a lot of rungs down the ladder and enter an industry been throttled with too many domestic sparkies which are seeing prices and wages driven down .... entertain me and explain why you would wan to do such a backwards measure?

 

[Adam W]

Why not become a driving instructor instead?

 

[telectrix]

Hmm... Driving lessons @ £11/hour. Take off the cost of running the newish motor, not much wages left.

 

[ChrisElectrical88]

Become a plumber. Then you are more than qualified to do domestic installs. Or at least that's what your ego will tell you.

Seriously though stick with the job you are in unless you want to be undercut by some incompetent shrewhead who will do the job for nothing.

 

[Adam W]

Hmm... Driving lessons @ £11/hour. Take off the cost of running the newish motor, not much wages left.

Where did you get £11 ph from? I used to pay £40 for a 2 hour lesson, in the late 90s.

 

[telectrix]

loads round here advertising 10 lessons £55. or £12/lesson.

 

[RyanCheetham]

My driving lessons cost me £24 ph then £30ph for evenings and weekends. This was around 7years ago

 

[Miketwinny]

10 lessons £99 round here

 

[shanky887614]

10 lessons £99 round here

usually thats first 10

and thats cause there desperate. ones near me charge £20 an hour

a few of the ones that are doing 5 lessons for £50 don't drive for all

 

[Geordie Spark]

I paid £3 per lesson.

 

[Darkwood]

I paid £3 per lesson.

They come with engines now though Geordie

 

[shanky887614]

They come with engines now though Geordie

don't belittle Geordie, i heard he was an excellent coachman in his day:biggrinjester:

 

[Geordie Spark]

They come with engines now though Geordie

Aye .. they did back then too, but they were steam engines.

Great things steam engines .... I understand them!!

 

[tidyboiler]

My daughter is paying £20 per hour........I paid £2.50.

 

[telectrix]

don't you mean £2/10/0d?

 

[ipf]

don't you mean £2/10/0d?

How to confuse the confused ? :crazy:...... OP that is.

 

[johnoconnor]

hi i was just wondering to help out friends and relatives on my 4 days off not a change of career i do all the work if not very similar in my work place taking cables off distribution boards changing fittings and installs but is there anything i need to do course wise to make myself able to do domestic electrics i already drive and dont have the patience to teach other people so cheers for the comments but thats no help

 

[Knobhead]

40+ years back I paid nothing for my driving lessons, I repaired the instructor’s car.

Only two lessons to knock the bad habits out of me from driving in the quarry. They soon came back but I’d got that piece of paper by then.


Back to the original question, I'm sorry kid but you must be out of you’re tiny mind to leave industrial for domestic.

WHY? You will bored sh1tless.

 

[Burnt Fingers]

Hmm... Driving lessons @ £11/hour. Take off the cost of running the newish motor, not much wages left.

I visit a lot of customers per week, and I am surprised at how many Newly Certificated Driving Instructors drink Special Brew.

 

[simpson93]

paid £22/ph for mine 3 years ago

but anyway back to the thread, to do electrical work in domestic sector you need to work in accordance with part p building reg document can be found here:Planning Portal - Approved Document P - Electrical safety - Dwellings

 

[Jay Sparks]

hi i was just wondering to help out friends and relatives on my 4 days off not a change of career i do all the work if not very similar in my work place taking cables off distribution boards changing fittings and installs but is there anything i need to do course wise to make myself able to do domestic electrics i already drive and dont have the patience to teach other people so cheers for the comments but thats no help

Some things you do as a domestic electrician, may need notifying! To do this, you either join a scheme and pay them around £400 p/a, or you notify direct to the LABC but the latter will cost you loads. If the work you do is none notifiable, then you dont need any quals, you just need to be compotant! Check out the Planning portal for notifiable work.

But as the others have said, stay were you are.

 

[HappyHippyDad]

hi I am looking if someone can guide me in the right direction i currently i qualified electrical engineer and work a 4 on 4 off pattern but i am wanting to see how to become a domestic electrician below are the current qualifications i already hold and i am going to do the 17th edition first amendment soon so any advice on what else I will need to acquire will be a great help cheers
current qualification:
BTEC national certificate level 3 (electrical/electronic engineering)
National Vocational Qualification level 3 (engineering maintenance (electrical))
semta modern aprenticeship in engineering

Well I'm enjoying it :smiley2:

Just contact any of the registration bodies.. Napit, Elecsa, NICEIC, Stroma etc and have a chat with them, they will tell you what they want from you with regards qualifications and also if what you have is sufficient.

 

[Des 56]

I could write a page on what should be obtained and the criteria involved ,but given that the Councils (on the whole)had no interest in the Part P idea from the outset,they have even less now that the vast majority of its requirements have been ditched

Just get your tools out and crack on

 

[Geordie Spark]

My daughter is paying £20 per hour........I paid £2.50.

............ and you wore a VERY short skirt, and a VERY low top ......................

 

[Engineer54]

hi I am looking if someone can guide me in the right direction i currently i qualified electrical engineer and work a 4 on 4 off pattern but i am wanting to see how to become a domestic electrician below are the current qualifications i already hold and i am going to do the 17th edition first amendment soon so any advice on what else I will need to acquire will be a great help cheers
current qualification:
BTEC national certificate level 3 (electrical/electronic engineering)
National Vocational Qualification level 3 (engineering maintenance (electrical))
semta modern aprenticeship in engineering

Well first off you're NOT an Electrical Engineer, your only qualified to level 3, which is basically ''Approved Electrician'' or maybe Technician'' if experienced . Though you are working in, probably a high tech industrial position...

So why you would be wanting to enter the Domestic sector of this industry, is totally beyond my understanding. Do you actually believe that the grass is greener doing Domestic?? Do yourself a favour and USE the qualifications you have attained to date, to BETTER yourself, ...don't throw them down the bloody drain, with the half baked idea you presently have.

Remember, ....Being a complete idiot is easy!! lol!!

 

[GLENNSPARK]

............ and you wore a VERY short skirt, and a VERY low top ......................

anything to curb a roving eye geordie....

 

[snowhead]

hi i was just wondering to help out friends and relatives on my 4 days off not a change of career i do all the work if not very similar in my work place taking cables off distribution boards changing fittings and installs but is there anything i need to do course wise to make myself able to do domestic electrics i already drive and dont have the patience to teach other people so cheers for the comments but thats no help

On that basis then;

First thing you need to do is check your employment T's & C's to see if your current employer will allow you;
a, to run another business whilst an employee
b, run an electrical business whilst an employee.

 

[Engineer54]

Originally Posted by johnoconnor
hi i was just wondering to help out friends and relatives on my 4 days off not a change of career i do all the work if not very similar in my work place taking cables off distribution boards changing fittings and installs but is there anything i need to do course wise to make myself able to do domestic electrics i already drive and dont have the patience to teach other people so cheers for the comments but thats no help

If that is what you were asking why didn't you state that in your OP?

All you need in this case is the 17th ed qual and a wad of cash to give to a scheme provider of your choice!!

Oh and if you're bothered, .....what snowhead has pointed out above, with regards to your present employers standing!!!

 

[GLENNSPARK]

If that is what you were asking why didn't you state that in your OP?

All you need in this case is the 17th ed qual and a wad of cash to give to a scheme provider of your choice!!

Oh and if you're bothered, .....what snowhead has pointed out above, with regards to your present employers standing!!!

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