Which Electrical Body Are You With?

[fall-apart-dave]

STROMA. Or was. I took a job instead of going ahead with setting up solo as a sparky.

 

[sparkyblue1]

Well guys and girls, let's see who you are registered with.

what happens if you with more than one body?

 

[silverfox1]

I have just voted none, never have been , have held a JIB approved card for over 30 years now and do mostly commercial / light industrial work on a sub contract basis , if I do any domestic I stick to small non notafiable work.

 

[sparkle85]

I've only just qualified so haven't decided on a body yet - but I'm sure this thread will help with my decision

 

[Tex]

I do little bits of data work for a NICEIC contractor but voted None for myself. I got out of the trade when ISO9000 paperwork took up most of my week, after being with the GPO/Post Office Telephones/British Telecom/BT for 30 years and trained thoroughly on everything from a bulb to a lift, gas, water and hydraulics, and DC millivolts to 11Kv HV. Now I'm not allowed to install a s/o at home. The world's gone mad. Having a pocket full of tickets and being registered with the Hawks is all fine but who are you leaving on site while you price that other job?

 

[zap]

wheres 'bodgit and scarper'? their should be a few registered to that brigade

Here you go:
LibriVox - https://librivox.org/author/1333?primary_key=1333&search_category=author&search_page=1&search_form=get_results

 

[Sintra]

Ok you should all now be able to vote on more than one selection.

 

[john.irvine]

Its a None vote for me, as an industrial electrician I don't need any of them. Basically a cowboy wouldn't last a day in industry, and any electrical work I do at home, just need an installation certificate sent to my councils building department where they keep it on file together with the copy of my certificate that they asked for.

 

[Taylortwocities]

Now I'm not allowed to install a s/o at home.

Of course you can. You can do just about anything but install a new consumer unit or a whole new circuit, and a couple of items like work in the vanishingly small zones in a bathroom.

You could even do the more restricted tasks if you open a case with LABC. But there's a cost to that.

A most amusing thing to me were the threads on the IET forum site when (a much more rigorous) Part P was introduced more than a decade ago. There were a lot of life-time IET (IEE then) HND electronic engineers who found they couldn't legally do much electrical work in their own, or others, houses without getting the relavent City and Guilds Electrical Installation qualifictions and joining smashy and NICIECy.

The notification requirements have been very much diluted since then (not good, in my opinion).

 

[Deleted member 93172]

Voted now, I am in the NICEIC was an AC and DI contractor, but now just DI, because of ill health and getting on a bit. To be frank and I know this might upset a few people, I am getting quite peed of with it all, when you find people who hold part P status obtained through, lets say bathroom and kitchen fitting are now changing CU's, rewiring houses etc. Its really mocking the sparks who have come up through proper apprenticeships and are fully trained, and they the bodies said the part P side of things would clear out the cowboy's how wrong can they be, so I am thinking none of the bodies are really there to protect our trade, anyway enough of my ranting's I am off to feed my horse now oops! I mean walk my dog. See yer all