New Certs

[the pict]

So by now we are all filling in the new forms, Yes ? well sort of, this week a couple of jobs that took about 4 hours in total, add a 16A outlet for a dryer in a commercial laundry, and add a 3Kw instant hot water hand wash spurred from an existing ring in the brewery, quick turnaround back in the car and off for lunch, do the invoices and e-mail them off certs to follow usuall stuff, but now these faffin certs take up so much time SPD,s Alternate supplies, plus the other crap the have dreamt up to go on the forms,I use the NICEIC online jobs, but now its print the page s I need fill in as I think is required, and stuff all that utter crap, if we were to price every job for the time spent on these forms we will get less work, and hop along and his mates will saddle up and price us out of work, we are in real danger here of letting the seat polishers run the industry, oh and one other thing on the 21St I have my half day visit and he will get the forms as is and as chosen by me. dont like tough there are other schemes
End of todays rant
The Pict

 

[Richard Burns]

I totally understand.
I prepare my own forms and I have them set up with the default obvious settings, e.g.. firefighters switches N/A already filled in, it will catch me out one day when there is a firefighters switch but it does save a lot of time.
I am seriously wondering whether to leave them out and just have some blanks for additional inspections if required.

 

[the pict]

See thats clever thinking, but, I am a computer dinosaur, I can manage a 3 column spreadsheet.....just
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[DuaneMHunt1976]

maybe printable spread sheet would be a good idear and SHAIR

 

[Richard Burns]

I keep meaning to move them from Word to excel but the compression I use to get the inspections on one sheet is a nightmare in excel.

 

[the pict]

It must have been a shed load of work on word tho

 

[robsparky1975]

I had about 10 EICR forms left in a pad and now been binned,borrowed a set of the 17th amd 3 books for the annual visit as no way my paying £100 for another book next year or after,naff off,should of been a gas engineer license to print money lol

 

[NDG Elecs]

I do same as Richard. Have fillable PDFs saved with all my details and around half of the schedule of inspections already filled in. Gets a bit soul destroying and repetitive filling in the forms despite the saved bits. Saves paper and ink too as I often email a PDF copy to the client these days, and back up all my certs every so often.

The need to have the latest regs is making jobs for the boys IMO. Many other industries simply have updates available without having to buy a complete new set of their particular regs. There is a distinct lack of technology in the IET, and maybe they should revert been to IEE again.

 

[tomspark93]

I do same as Richard. Have fillable PDFs saved with all my details and around half of the schedule of inspections already filled in. Gets a bit soul destroying and repetitive filling in the forms despite the saved bits. Saves paper and ink too as I often email a PDF copy to the client these days, and back up all my certs every so often.

The need to have the latest regs is making jobs for the boys IMO. Many other industries simply have updates available without having to buy a complete new set of their particular regs. There is a distinct lack of technology in the IET, and maybe they should revert been to IEE again.

How do you go about getting fillable PDFs for the certificates? Did you make your own and if so is it hard to do?

 

[AWEL]

I totally understand.
I prepare my own forms and I have them set up with the default obvious settings, e.g.. firefighters switches N/A already filled in, it will catch me out one day when there is a firefighters switch but it does save a lot of time.
I am seriously wondering whether to leave them out and just have some blanks for additional inspections if required.

Great idea, was it easy enough to make? Would you mind sharing them?

 

[Richard Burns]

Fairly easy to make, getting the layout is time consuming.
As my forms are not laid out the same as the IET ones and are not all that easy to fill in unless you can make ongoing adjustments and know how the file was set up I do not think it would be generally helpful sharing them.
If I get the time I will try and get them set up as forms similar to the IET ones. (this may take a while!)