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Jun 9^th, 2009, 7:58am

As A Napit member I am paying out £400 per year but at the moment only doing a few certificated jobs per year! Anyone know how I could avoid the outlay. I am a Part time Sparky but with full time outgoings!! Shame to give up with my skills but facing a dilema??
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. Dont want to stop doing the work but 'the certification schemes' seem to want to prevent me! I am in favour of part P registration but it is only hitting me in the pocket.

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Reply #1 - Jun 9^th, 2009, 8:51am

I am in the same boat Birty, except I did not join a scheme.
My bigger jobs are normally part of a bigger project, so the electrical bit gets added to the buildings notice along with the other building work. Smaller jobs are more maintenance type work, which don't require notification. For the others, I give the customer the cost of notifying and then it is up to them.

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birty Trade Member Offline Posts: 90 Total Thanks: 0 For This Post: 0 Gender: Trade: Electrician	Re: Alternative to NAPIT Registration Reply #2 - Jun 9^th, 2009, 9:06pm I just know that if they have to inform building control and pay a fee they probably wont use me!!! Being a part time qualified sparks is painful to the pocket!!
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Zambezi GDPR opt-out Total Thanks: 0 For This Post: 0	Re: Alternative to NAPIT Registration Reply #3 - Jun 9^th, 2009, 9:14pm I have found that I am cheaper on bigger jobs than most of the other sparks, so the fee does not make me uncompetitive. A small job + fee will obviously be more than the competition. It is a no win situation I am afraid, they are trying to kill off the little guy!
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Reply #4 - Jun 12^th, 2009, 8:48pm

You have to be a member of a Competent Person scheme but does it have to be NAPIT? Are any of the other scheme operators cheaper?...

http://www.leeds.gov.uk/page.aspx?pageidentifier=a41f54e5-492c-4508-9567-b949b6c...

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Electrical Safety in Dwellings

(a) Full competence schemes

BRE Certification Limited
www.partp.co.uk
www.redbooklive.com
01923 664100

British Standards Institution (BSI)
www.kitemarktoday.com
www.bsi-global.com
01442 278607

ELECSA Limited
www.elecsa.org.uk
0870 749 0080

NAPIT Certification Limited
www.napit.org.uk
0870 444 1392

NICEIC Group Limited
www.niceic.org.uk
0800 013 0900

Edit: Humm seems they are alls £370 +Vat What happened to competition?

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wozzy Trade Member Offline Ask The Trades Posts: 584 Total Thanks: 4 For This Post: 0 Gender: Trade: Electrician	Re: Alternative to NAPIT Registration Reply #5 - Jun 14^th, 2009, 9:30am ELECSA will let you pay in instalments by direct debit. May not be so painful on the pocket, im not sure if the others do this. Im not going to be with them forever but they are friendly and keep things simple.
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baz Trade Member Offline If it ain't broke, keep fixing it until it is! Posts: 258 Total Thanks: 0 For This Post: 0 Henley-on-Thames United Kingdom Gender: Trade: Electrician	Re: Alternative to NAPIT Registration Reply #6 - Jun 19^th, 2009, 11:47pm NAPIT has a scheme called "JUST8". That let you notify up to 8 jobs a year. Don't know if its still available - ask them!
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Reply #7 - Jul 2^nd, 2009, 9:39pm

birty wrote on Jun 9^th, 2009, 9:06pm:

I just know that if they have to inform building control and pay a fee they probably wont use me!!! Being a part time qualified sparks is painful to the pocket!!

Agreed, I remember when I was in your position, the cost of getting test instruments calibrated only to use a few times for example really hurts. These days it's not an issue. You obviously do things by the book which is to be commended, I'm sure there are many out there who don't bother with a lot of the things we do, calibration, insurance, building notifications etc etc

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