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Hello - I got an gentle nudge from Dan via an email to come and say Hello. So here I am. Up until three years ago I worked as an Civil Servant with the MOD in Bath, amongst other places. With two children both likely to go to University I decided to change career path, and being a self employed domestic electrician looked like a good way forward for me to earn a bit more money and also to take control of my own working life. Bit silly for a 46 year old I can say with hindsight. Although overall I am glad I did it.
Hard is it not? Running a business that is.
I have ended up running a small construction firm with four chaps working for me, and Part P work is done in support of that, special place work, 17th edition rewires etc. Interestingly although able to self certify I have adopted a more conservative route and always bring in a 2391 Test Engineer to certify our work - he also acts as our company qualified person, and supervises when the work demands it. This has a benefit to us in that we maintain a very high quality simply because we are constantly being independently assessed. The profit is slightly down but the quality is always high, and I rest easy knowing we are always doing the best by our customers in terms of value for money. We do just enough work now that I am about to go the 2392 route myself just to ease the load as it were, and to provide a backup for when needed.
I only found the site fairly recently and have not had much time to spend on it, but the time I have spent here has been very instructive - the two views on extending cables for instance has been a real eye opener and has mirrored some of my own concerns about crimping.
Anyway - enough already - thanks for reading this far, and thanks too, to whoever has the interest to maintain the site, moderate it and generally keep it going, well done.
Hard is it not? Running a business that is.
I have ended up running a small construction firm with four chaps working for me, and Part P work is done in support of that, special place work, 17th edition rewires etc. Interestingly although able to self certify I have adopted a more conservative route and always bring in a 2391 Test Engineer to certify our work - he also acts as our company qualified person, and supervises when the work demands it. This has a benefit to us in that we maintain a very high quality simply because we are constantly being independently assessed. The profit is slightly down but the quality is always high, and I rest easy knowing we are always doing the best by our customers in terms of value for money. We do just enough work now that I am about to go the 2392 route myself just to ease the load as it were, and to provide a backup for when needed.
I only found the site fairly recently and have not had much time to spend on it, but the time I have spent here has been very instructive - the two views on extending cables for instance has been a real eye opener and has mirrored some of my own concerns about crimping.
Anyway - enough already - thanks for reading this far, and thanks too, to whoever has the interest to maintain the site, moderate it and generally keep it going, well done.
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