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I am looking to achieve some electrical qualifications to add to my toolbox and am looking for some advice on what's what.
Back story:
I'm 35 years old, my day job is in IT and have a small property maintenance business on the side, I find myself having to get a electrician in to do some work as required more and more frequently. This ranges from adding an additional outlet onto a radial all the up to a complete rewire. My go to electrician has as some might say became a "mate" over the last few years and he has suggested that as 99% of the electrical work I have him do is in domestic properties it may be worth me looking at training and then registering as a domestic installer with one of the lovely part P schemes.
Onto the questions:
I have spent a couple of months googling and reading reviews of the intensive training courses and trying to work out what specific qualifications are required for the part P schemes, TSFU offer the following for ÂŁ2.5K and claim it's enough to register with NICEIC as a domestic installer, but other than the lack of real world experience is this enough on paper?
Days 1 to 5 - City & Guilds 4141-01 - Electrical Installation Work within a Domestic Dwelling
Days 6 to 10 - City & Guilds 2393 – Part P Building Regulations
Days 11 to 15 - City & Guilds 2392-10 – Inspection & Testing Course
Days 16 to 18 - City & Guilds 2382 – Wiring Regulations (Including latest amendments)
I don't expect a crash course to magically make me a qualified electrician as I know it won't and that's not what I am trying to achieve here.
Any advice or direction would be gratefully received.
Kevin
I am looking to achieve some electrical qualifications to add to my toolbox and am looking for some advice on what's what.
Back story:
I'm 35 years old, my day job is in IT and have a small property maintenance business on the side, I find myself having to get a electrician in to do some work as required more and more frequently. This ranges from adding an additional outlet onto a radial all the up to a complete rewire. My go to electrician has as some might say became a "mate" over the last few years and he has suggested that as 99% of the electrical work I have him do is in domestic properties it may be worth me looking at training and then registering as a domestic installer with one of the lovely part P schemes.
Onto the questions:
I have spent a couple of months googling and reading reviews of the intensive training courses and trying to work out what specific qualifications are required for the part P schemes, TSFU offer the following for ÂŁ2.5K and claim it's enough to register with NICEIC as a domestic installer, but other than the lack of real world experience is this enough on paper?
Days 1 to 5 - City & Guilds 4141-01 - Electrical Installation Work within a Domestic Dwelling
Days 6 to 10 - City & Guilds 2393 – Part P Building Regulations
Days 11 to 15 - City & Guilds 2392-10 – Inspection & Testing Course
Days 16 to 18 - City & Guilds 2382 – Wiring Regulations (Including latest amendments)
I don't expect a crash course to magically make me a qualified electrician as I know it won't and that's not what I am trying to achieve here.
Any advice or direction would be gratefully received.
Kevin