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Frequently Asked Questions
- When should I get electrical work done?
- What Guarantee do you offer?
- What professional indemnity insurance is in force?
- What is "Part P"?
- What Professional Associations are you a member of?
- What is a "Competant Person"?
- What do these words mean: PIR, MCB, RCD?
- What is "Notifiable Work"?
When should I get electrical work done?
Get it done early in the proceedings if you’re doing up your house. Call in an electrician before laying carpets, tiling, plastering or decorating. Then they don’t have to be done again when the electrician has finished his work.
All our work is guaranteed against poor workmanship for 2 years.
What professional indemnity insurance is in force?
We are covered by a £2,000,000 indemnity through our insurers.
Part P refers to the building regulations and how electrical installations are to be installed, altered, added to or improved. It refers only to fixed wiring, not to anything that can be unplugged. All electrical work in domestic properties is subject to Part P. Nearly all electrical work is notifiable and needs to be done by a competent person
Click here to visit the Part P website
We are members of NAPIT
Competant Person Scheme registration number 31875
A Competant Person is someone who has had electrical training and is certified by NAPIT or one of the other professional electrician self-certification schemes.
What do these words mean: EICR, MCB, RCD?
An EICR or "Electrical Installation Condition Report" is a survey of the fixed wiring in a building involving visual inspection, electrical testing and some dissembling of electrical accessories. A standard report then details any problems and lists all readings taken. The original goes to the person commissioning the report and a copy is retained by the company producing the report.
An MCB or Miniature Circuit Breaker is used in a consumer unit in place of each fuse used in older boards. An MCB is a switch that can turn a circuit on or off e.g. upstairs lights. It is also a tripswitch that will automatically switch off if the circuit is overloaded eg if you try to take 10 amps from a 6A circuit.
An RCD or RCBO or RCCB is a special switch that will trip out if more than a trickle of current leaks to earth instead of returning to neutral. Typically, an RCD will trip out if more than 30mA or 30 thousandths of an amp leak to earth. It takes 50mA to kill a human being so the theory is an RCD should trip out quick enough to save a life
2.5 Electrical installation work that is notifiable is set out in regulation 12(6A).
12.--(6A) A person intending to carry out building work in relation to which Part P of Schedule 1 imposes a requirement is required to give a building notice or deposit full plans where the work consists of--
(a) the installation of a new circuit;
(b) the replacement of a consumer unit; or
(c) any addition or alteration to existing circuits in a special location.
--(9) In this regulation "special location" means--
(a) within a room containing a bath or shower, the space surrounding a bath tap of shower head, where the spacwe extends--
(i) vertically from the finished floor level to--
(aa) a height of 2.25 metres; or
(bb) the position of the shower head where it is attached to a wall or ceiling at a point higher than 2.25 metres from that level; and
(ii) horizontally--
(aa) where there is a bath tub or shower tray, from the edge of the bath tub or shower tray to a distance of 0.6 metres; or
(bb) where there is no bath tub or shower tray, from the centre point of the shower head where it is attached to the wall or ceiling to a distance of 1.2 metres; or
(b) a room containing a swimming pool or sauna heater.
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