Electrical Certificate Required?

nimdy

Last year I had an electrician connect a garden building (office) to the electricity supply via an existing 13amp fused spur in the house. I dug the trench in the garden, laid the armoured cable and brought the ends into the house and office. The electrician connected it all up and tested the supply. I am now coming to sell the house and need to know whether an electrical certificate is needed for this work. What do you think?

AdrianC

It's entirely up to your buyer and/or their lender whether they require one.

"Garden lighting and power installations" fall under special locations in Part P of the building regs, so trump the otherwise non-notifiable nature of adding a fused spur/socket outlets to an existing circuit.

Q5 - http://electrical.theiet.org/building-regulations/part-p/faqs.cfm

If it's over a year ago, then the breach of building regs cannot be enforced by the local authority anyway, even in the unlikely event they actually gave a toss.

nimdy

AdrianC wrote: »

It's entirely up to your buyer and/or their lender whether they require one.

"Garden lighting and power installations" fall under special locations in Part P of the building regs, so trump the otherwise non-notifiable nature of adding a fused spur/socket outlets to an existing circuit.

Q5 - http://electrical.theiet.org/building-regulations/part-p/faqs.cfm

If it's over a year ago, then the breach of building regs cannot be enforced by the local authority anyway, even in the unlikely event they actually gave a toss.

Thanks for your quick reply. Should I raise it with my solicitor?

Hoploz

If you had a proper electrician do the electrical joining-up bit, then he may well be able to give you a certificate. I'd be asking him in the first instance whether he would mind doing so.

nimdy

Thanks. Contacted him via text but he's on holiday this week. He said I didn't originally ask for / pay for a certificate so he didn't do one (I don't remember him mentioning it at the time of doing the works), so when he's back I'll ask how much that will cost to produce.