Rewiring Electricity asap - help!

Welshie_2

Will try to post this somewhere else too as am not sure it's really in the right place!
We are due to complete on new house tomorrow, and plan to re-wire, have a quote from a sparky to carry out the work this wkend for cash in hand (roughly £300 cheaper). Sparky tells us that we will have a certificate for this which is valid for 5 years. Does this sound right? Do we then need to get someone else in to check the leci and verify that all is ok? I know that we may need to prove that work is legitimate when we come to sell the house. Read someone else's posting on here - something to do with part p, but have no idea what it's all about - where can I get advice about what we need to expect from an electrician?
Thanks!

moneyuser

Can't really help with your specific questions but these links may help

NICEIC
Part P

Snow_Dog

As far as I am aware, prior to 2006 work done on the electrical circuits in your house carried out by a sparky qualified to 16th edition wiring regs was fine.

NICEIC certificates are a check of the house wiring and can only be done by a NICEIC approved sparky (sparky pays a annual fee and takes exams for this approval), he can then test and issue certificate. Testing is things like earth bonding, leakage current and is like an MOT of your house wiring.

This year (i think January) the part P was introduced, this is an extra requirement on sparkys and like all things costs more.

If you try to sell your house and the buyers/soliciters ask for certificates for electrical circuits simply call up an NICEIC approved co. and get them to give you a ball park on test and certificate.

If there are any major faults you dont want to sell (or live in) a death trap anyway do you?

clutton_2

unlike gas, where CORGI, is the only accredited supplier of safety certificates, there are several suppliers, for electricity, but NICEIC. is the one that most folks know and reccommend. An inspection certificiate from a NICEI chap will show that your house is safe or not.

amboy

However I have spoken to many competant electricians whom are members of the ECA and they simply refuse to pay the amount of money that it costs to belong to NICEIC, doesnt make them less competant.

In fact my LA had to rewrite their whole page on this when first they demanded that all work should be carried out by a NICEIC electrician amended to include no less than 5 alternate qualification as acceptable.

If they are adding sockets etc then it is wise for you to mark out exactly where you want these and also be clear about your expectations regarding what mess you will be left with if they are channelling out walls etc.

A cash in hand guy might not be as quick to come back and remedy some of the filling to be done, however if you are having a plasterer or decorater afterwards then may not be an issue.

HTH