One option for rewiring is to DIY as part of a Building Control Notice for other renovation work. Building Control then arrange for the inspection and testing as part of their service for the fee you paid. You then eventually get the whole project signed off by Building Control and get your completion certificate from them and a Part P certificate...or so I thought.

My local Building Control say that they will send round one of their own people to check out the second fix (no testing) and after talking to me and having a looksie they will either say fine and they give me a completion certificate (but no electrical test certificate/whatever).

Is that how it's supposed to work? Thought I needed the electrical installation to be properly measured and tested?  Or am I covered since they have given me the completion certificate?  What about when it comes to sell the house? Would a buyer expect to see a Part P certificate?

The Govt amended Part P whereby it did away with the requirements of 'P.2' which called for the issue of electrical paperwork.

So if LABC are doing the inspection,  a completion certificate is all you'll get unless you inspect, test and fill in a cert yourself.

Part P - Introduced to provide meaningless work for the otherwise unemployable.

TT

dingbat wrote on Mar 4^th, 2009, 7:45am:


Haha

The_Trician wrote on Mar 4^th, 2009, 8:51am:


That's a red herring, actually.

P2 was meaningless as the principal means of showing 'reasonable provision' is intended to be that you comply with the requirements of BS 7671, which requires all such paperwork to be issued anyway.

Hmmm, but there isn't a legal requirement to follow BS7671 and it's subsequent requirements - you could install to any recognised standard - even your own - so long as you could demonstrate that you had made 'reasonable provision'.

This one has been thrashed out quite a few times in the past.

Jerry - I don't have a direct link, but if you can find, or have a copy of the initial version of 2005's Part P, and compare this with the current one, you'll see which bits I mean

TT

I read it differently.  For example it says that a completion certificate issued by the local authority is evidence that compliance with the Building Regs (therefore Part P implied surely?) has been achieved.

CWatters wrote on Mar 8^th, 2009, 9:06am:


Which is kind of scary, isn't it?  In my case no measurements taken. No checks of any sort. But then maybe he was impressed by my immaculate wiring around the consumer unit ...stop sniggering, Zambesi.