Certificates - what needs it?

[ebee]

All additions/alterations should be certified in accordance with BS 7671.
All Registered contractors MUST comply with BS7671 it is part of their contractual agreement with their scheme providers (both England & Wales).

Notification is slightly different in England & Wales but in both all new circuits and consumer unit changes are included.


Wales still has notifiable areas that England used to have until recently (good for them I says, they should not have been dropped in England).

If your electrician is not registered he may have just decided to certify new circuits only (notifiable) . He should have notified (or got you to) including paying the whopping fee according to the rules in England/Wales as appropriate.

Any decent electrician not registered would still certify all that is worked upon anyway.

bloke down the pub might do this but he is more likely to belong to the " Wire, Fire & F**k off Brigade"

In short, you should really be asking for all the works undertaken to be certified.

 

[JohnW2]

Thanks very much for the replies folks. Though I have to say I'm not really that much clearer. I guess I'll either have to just accept his certificates or else find the regulations and try to interpret them myself.

Any competent electrician working in compliance with the Wiring Regulations should issue some sort of certificate for any sort of electrical work (even if only a 'Minor Works Certificate'), but (s)he only needs to submit certificates to the Building Control people in the case of 'notifiable' work (which, in your case, is probably just the two 'new circuits' items at the top of your list) - that may be why you've only got those two.

However, to resolve the matter you would really need to ask the electrician (a) whether he did submit certificate(s) for those first two items to LABC (and, if not, why not, and what he's going to do about it) and (b) if you can some other sort of 'BS7671 certificate(s)' for all of the rest of the work he did.

Kind Regards, John

 

[PrenticeBoyofDerry]

But why would they have two certificates or multi-certificates. when one could have covered all the work?
Unless they work was performed at different time periods.

 

[PrenticeBoyofDerry]

But why would they have two installation certificates or multi-certificates. when one could have covered all the work?
Unless the work was performed at different time periods.

 

[JohnW2]

But why would they have two certificates or multi-certificates. when one could have covered all the work? Unless they work was performed at different time periods.

Your guess is as good as mine - different times, different people, an electrician who thinks that every task needs a separate certificate, or ....!! I suppose it wouldn't actually matter how many certificates there were provided all the work were covered!

Kind Regards, John