Electrical Rewiring

Canucklehead

Good morning: Here is a link to proposed changes in 17th Edition...

http://www.iee.org/Publish/WireRegs/WiringMatters/Documents/Issue22/2007_22_spring_wiring_matters_brief_overview_17th_bs7671_2008.pdf
as well as the entire draft version http://www.iee.org/shop/invoke.cfm?objectid=E07370F6-A92E-D411-E01D2B908F9AEB7D&method=DisplayDetails
available for download free of charge (see bottom of page)
HTH

Canucklehead

ceegee

Can anyone give me some idea of the cost of rewiring a medium/largeish semi-detached house?

Also, how much upheaval would a complete rewire cause? Would it require floors to be lifted and/or ceilings to be removed? Would a complete redecoration throughout be needed afterwards?

Advice would be gratefully received as I am absolutely down in the dumps regarding the state of this millstone around my neck. It's supposed to be our family home, the children were born here, but I'm getting to hate it now. So very sad......

vaio

baldelectrician wrote: »

RCD's will become more or less mandatory in the new IEE regs due out next year.

Quite a lot of changes.

RCD’s are mandatory now for sockets that can be used to supply equipment outdoors. This is generally taken to mean all ground floor sockets

vaio

ianeverton wrote: »

……..But since the change to the ill conceived and executed regs for part P that a "competent person" may be inspected but at the councils expense……….

that seems fair and reasonable to me, any competent person already pays to be audited and inspected by whichever organisation they belong to so if the council wants to inspect again then the council should pay for it

ianeverton wrote: »

……….I think this is probably the best way of doing this as someone who has been a spark for 30 years with all up to date quals is still not qualified to carry out domestic work if they are not prepared to pay a ridiculous amount of money to be "Part P"……...

I don’t know what “a ridiculous amount of money to be Part P" means. We are full scope NICEIC and that costs £400 ish and the part p bit was added on at no extra cost. Compare this cost with the £3.5k we pay in insurance or even the £500 we pay to have our instruments calibrated and it seems a bargain!!

baldelectrician

xtcnrg wrote: »

As jamesengineer says, you must check out contractor on NICEIC website to confirm they have Part P status ,

The NICEIC aren't the only self cert scheme out there, but as they have a good PR department the public has that impression.

vaio

baldelectrician wrote: »

The NICEIC aren't the only self cert scheme out there, but as they have a good PR department the public has that impression.

http://www.competentperson.co.uk

has a search function that covers all the self certification schemes, search by name or location.

As previously mentioned, if I was a punter I’d be inclined to go for someone who has full membership rather than the cut down “part p” version and also maybe someone who was professional enough to join an organisation before it was effectively made compulsory under part p. However this would tend to limit you to NICEIC members

baldelectrician

vaio wrote: »

http://www.competentperson.co.uk

has a search function that covers all the self certification schemes, search by name or location

that'll be why i posted the link at the top of the topic

vaio

ahh, didn't spot that