Garage electrical testing

[vixerfixer]

Hi folks,just want some advice on my garage electrical testing please.just built a detached garage,and run my 10mm swa cable into the garage from the house.sparky came down yesterday to quote me,and he said he will connect house cu and the garage cu,and give me an electrical test certificate,which the council have requested.my question is,will my sockets and lights be also covered when I install them myself.

 

[flameport]

The test certificate will cover what's installed at the time of the test.
If you install other things later, they will not be covered by it.

 

[vixerfixer]

Ok thanks mate

 

[ericmark]

You want to have one socket and one light so that there is a circuit. There are five certificates:-

Installation certificate - in the main with domestic, this will also need another certificate as well.
Minor works certificate - often does not require another certificate as well.
Electrical installation condition report - often raised where there is neither of the above, and the LABC wants proof that the installation complies, and often the LABC will stipulate who they want to do the report.
Compliance certificate - Issued by scheme providers to confirm the electrician who raised the installation certificate was a scheme member.
Completion certificate - Issued by LABC shows they were satisfied that the work was done to required standard.

Some work only needs a minor works certificate and does not need registering with the LABC, so you want to ensure any work you do will not need registering as rather expensive, so as long as the circuits exist from the garage consumer unit you can extend them without registering the work, so you need to have something supplied from the two circuits, so you are not making a new circuit.

I don't know English charges, in Wales it starts at £100 plus vat, so you don't want to add circuits after the installation certificate is issued.

I have looked at the certificates issued for this house, and to be frank the details were very scant, and how anyone would know what was done from the certificates I do not know. I have done work under the LABC and submitted the installation certificate, they wanted to view the test equipment before they would allow it, and my qualifications, so although in theory you can DIY in practice you can't.

 

[EFLImpudence]

Some work only needs a minor works certificate and does not need registering with the LABC,

The certificate type is not related to whether notification(registering?) is required or not and vice versa.

 

[ericmark]

The certificate type is not related to whether notification(registering?) is required or not and vice versa.

Technically yes, work in kitchens, bathroom, and outdoors where I live needs notification even if minor, and one can raise an installation certificate for work which does not need it. And yes, I should not assume England not Wales, but get two sockets under the CU one on each RCBO/MCB and then one can extend the circuit latter, without need to notify, as it is an existing circuit.

It must be obvious with a CU with no circuits active, that so DIY will be done latter which is not going to be notified. LABC inspectors are not daft.