- Feb 23, 2011
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- If you're a qualified, trainee, or retired electrician - Which country is it that your work will be / is / was aimed at?
- United Kingdom
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- Practising Electrician (Qualified - Domestic or Commercial etc)
There are CPS in Scotland run by SELECT and NICEIC! They are Approved contractors. Or you can be SJIB (and jump through a few more hoops sometimes) No DI’s thank god! We don’t have English Building Regs but by virtue of our Building Standards a warrant might be necessary for this job? problem is up here that with no part P notification there are loads of un skilled, under skilled and non skilled people doing electrical work and lack of public education means the customer doesn’t know what questions to ask to get a competent person. Then there’s no policing of these bodgers whom permanently live under the radar.
Added to that there appears to have been little or no discussion as to the scope of work and damage to the fabric betwix the customer and contractor. Were there any contract terms agreed?
Maybe a personal thing but if I was rewiring this in stages I’d be issuing certification as we went along to prove what I’d done was safe and I was happy to put my name to it and ask for stage payments. Maybe it’s just my company best practice.
This example really shows the diverse number of opinions and the scope for considering what people in the trade consider is ok and not. I guess that’s a fault of self regulation and vague and woolly ‘regs’. For example I don’t necessarily have an issue with the hole above the CU if further rewiring is to be done. Maybe the contractor was over zealous or maybe a large chunk broke out, who knows? But running a cable around the skating as has been done looks amateurish and lazy. But again we don’t have the full picture of what is going in that area when it comes to finishing?
Think the OP needs to talk to the contractor to iron matters out.
Added to that there appears to have been little or no discussion as to the scope of work and damage to the fabric betwix the customer and contractor. Were there any contract terms agreed?
Maybe a personal thing but if I was rewiring this in stages I’d be issuing certification as we went along to prove what I’d done was safe and I was happy to put my name to it and ask for stage payments. Maybe it’s just my company best practice.
This example really shows the diverse number of opinions and the scope for considering what people in the trade consider is ok and not. I guess that’s a fault of self regulation and vague and woolly ‘regs’. For example I don’t necessarily have an issue with the hole above the CU if further rewiring is to be done. Maybe the contractor was over zealous or maybe a large chunk broke out, who knows? But running a cable around the skating as has been done looks amateurish and lazy. But again we don’t have the full picture of what is going in that area when it comes to finishing?
Think the OP needs to talk to the contractor to iron matters out.
