Ok the guy phoned me today.. Said he had technical problems and he will hand write it as opposed to printing it out. He tells me it will be in the post tonight.
Yep the shower works but I have no experience of building inspectors. I would rather he find a problem before i complete the bathroom rather than having to pull it apart later... I know its probably overthinking but its a condition that I have.
Jim
"What is the process for a sparky to obtain the Part P cert that Jim needed?"
I just checked my "house papers"...some relatively minor work was carried out in my house in 2007 (a supply to the shed and extra sockets in the garage etc). I decided that it would a good idea to get a certificate in case some diligent solicitor asked for one if I ever sell the house. I called an electrician who visited and spent a short time doing his electrical checks and took the appropriate sum of money from me (I think it was about £80). He posted them shortly afterwards: (1) a typed "Building Reg.s Compliance Cert. issued by NICEIC on behalf of the NICEIC installer (the sparky). Plus (B) a "Minor Domestic Electrical Installation Works Certificate" the details of which was completed by hand and detailed the work that he was testing and showed the electrical values etc.
As we all know the degree of DIY electrical work that householders can do is very limited ... strictly speaking I don't think even a socket outlet may be swapped by the householder.
Gas work is of course, understandably, as tightly controlled as electrics (if not more so) now. Many years ago it was commonplace for bods to do the odd bit of gas fitting.... I do recall fitting what was then called a "Multipoint" water heater in my parents place and no-one turned an eye. Cranes the gas appliance suppliers, in somewhere like Streatham, sold it to me over the counter as I recall. That would have been in the late 60's. I bet no-one remembers them?
I did domestic re-wires in the 70's and used to ring the LEB (London Electricity Board) and they'd send an inspector round on a bike to do a "test and connect" and have a look round the job and go away happy. Not any more, that's for sure.
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