Nearly a Year on and Still no Part P, what can I do?

AnnieGunn

Had a new bathroom and kitchen fitted which involved various electrical works such as moving sockets about and fitting new extractor fans in both the kitchen and bathroom last April.  The electrical company involved hasn't sent any paperwork at all to cover any of this work.

In addition I had a new consumer unit fitted by the same company a few weeks later and again, no Part P or paperwork for that either.

I have been polite and chased up three so far, once in October and then mid January and again 4 weeks ago.  The owner said for the first and second chase up he would arrange to have it sent and then I heard nothing for the third despite sending it to the owner + the admin team this time round.  I am going to be slightly screwed over if I want to sell my property in a few years and have zero paperwork for all the electrical work done so I am now beginning to worry a little.

Would anyone know what my next steps would be if they continue to ignore my request for paperwork?  Is there someone I can escalate this to?  Are they actually under any obligation to send Part Ps?  If they don't send any paperwork is there anything I can do to get the work certified by someone else?

Cheers in advance for any advise you can offer.

Section62

AnnieGunn said:

If they don't send any paperwork is there anything I can do to get the work certified by someone else?

Yes, for example one option might be to get the local council to sign it off using the regularisation process (it would cost you money) but you'd get the paperwork issued by them or their contractor.

I would probably start by going back to the company and say that unless they send you the paperwork by [a reasonable date] you will go to the council for BC regularisation and send the bill to them.  They might call your bluff, or the thought of the council casting an eye over their work and the risk of you making a small claim to recover the cost might be enough of a prompt for them to pull their finger out.

Beware that the regularisation process might throw up issues that could cost you money to put right without necessarily being able to reclaim the cost from the company.  Use with care.

Sebi_895

I don't see why you should fork out more money to pay someone else to certify work that you've already paid another person to do! Long sentence but point made I hope. I would chase them more, do it daily even; you've paid for a service so expect to be get the service you paid for. At a later stage, maybe consider some bad publicity for the electrical outfit!

flashg67

Are they members of a a recognised trade body - they might be able to help?

fenwick458

firstly find out if the company that did the work are a member of a competent persons scheme (eg. NICEIC or NAPIT)
https://www.competentperson.co.uk/
then get in touch with them and tell them. so if you find out they are registered with NICEIC send them a message here
that should prompt some action.
unless of course you find out that they aren't in fact registered with any schemes, in that case you'll have to get in touch with the LABC they will either give you a list of electricians in your area that can test the work and issue a certificate, or they might do that themselves (both of the last options will cost you)

Ectophile

If they are members of one of the registration schemes, then the notification should be done through their scheme, and recorded with the council's Building Control.

If they aren't, then they can send you paperwork, but you are responsible for ensuring that BC are notified, and they will charge a fee.