Hello from a old-newbie........

[CastleBlue]

Hello There,
New to the Forum!
I completed my apprenticeship as an Electrical Fitter back in '96, acquiring C&G 236 and 16th Ed. After working on industrial work, I drifted through telecomm/datacomm installation, project management, ending up in an IT messaging system network support (dull).

One factor of engineering I have little experience of, is domestic sparky work and to test myself post redundancy, I would like to get 'into the game'.
I have my 17th Edition Cert and have passed 2394&5 written and multi-guess papers and await doing the practical(s), have some past experience, and present by partly rewiring my house; but I seem to be stuck on a chicken-and-egg situation - initial assessment by a CPS provider on jobs that are 'notifiable', but legislation would rather you were 'approved' before doing these...
I find the red-tape like this - new qualifications, Building Regs, Competent Person Schemes, conflicting advice on forums . Cost! - very challenging, but strangely (sadly?) it's addictive overcoming each hurdle to get to hopefully being paid for a good days work in the near future!
Thanks in advance for any answers to the many questions I will no doubt ask over time!
For starters: Anyone else going/gone through getting the exams, just to try to overcome understanding Part P/Building Regs recently?


CastleBlue

 

[Sintra]

Hi & welcome

 

[Richard Burns]

Welcome to the forum, good luck with continuing progress.

If you are in England working on a domestic property then you need to inform building control about new circuits, new consumer units and alterations to circuits in a sauna room, swimming pool room and within the zones of a room containing a bath or shower.

If you are registered with a competent person scheme this can be done through them cheaply and retroactively.
If you are not registered with a competent person scheme then this must be done in advance and BC will check throughout the work, though if you are a competent electrician they may relax some of the rules.
If you are going to register, then you can usually do the first job, use this as the assessment job and once you have been accepted notify this job.
Note that notification to the householder must happen within 30 days of the job completion so it can be a bit of a time bind.

 

[CastleBlue]

Welcome to the forum, good luck with continuing progress.

If you are in England working on a domestic property then you need to inform building control about new circuits, new consumer units and alterations to circuits in a sauna room, swimming pool room and within the zones of a room containing a bath or shower.

If you are registered with a competent person scheme this can be done through them cheaply and retroactively.
If you are not registered with a competent person scheme then this must be done in advance and BC will check throughout the work, though if you are a competent electrician they may relax some of the rules.
If you are going to register, then you can usually do the first job, use this as the assessment job and once you have been accepted notify this job.
Note that notification to the householder must happen within 30 days of the job completion so it can be a bit of a time bind.

A belated thanks Richard.