Frequently Asked Questions
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Areas Covered
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When should I get electrical work done?Get it done early in the proceedings if you’re doing up your house. Call in an electrician before laying carpets, tiling, plastering or decorating. Then they don’t have to be done again when the electrician has finished his work. Back to TopWhat Guarantee do you offer?All our work is guaranteed against poor workmanship for 1 year. Back to TopWhat professional indemnity insurance is in force?We are covered by a £2,000,000 indemnity through our insurers. Back to TopWhat is "Part P" ?Part P refers to the building regulations and how electrical installations are to be installed, altered, added to or improved. It refers only to fixed wiring, not to anything that can be unplugged. All electrical work in domestic properties is subject to Part P. Nearly all electrical work is notifiable and needs to be done by a competent person Click here to visit the Part P website Back to TopWhat Professional Associations are you a member of ?We are members of ELECSA
Click here to visit the ELECSA website Back to TopWhat is a "Competant Person"?A Competant Person is someone who has had electrical training and is certified by ELECSA or one of the other professional electrician self-certification schemes. Back to TopWhat do these words mean: PIR, MCB, RCD?A PIR or Periodic Inspection Report is a survey of the fixed wiring in a building involving visual inspection, electrical testing and some dissembling of electrical accessories. A standard report then details any problems and lists all readings taken. The original goes to the person commissioning the report and a copy is retained by the company producing the report. An MCB or Miniature Circuit Breaker is used in a consumer unit in place of each fuse used in older boards. An MCB is a switch that can turn a circuit on or off e.g. upstairs lights. It is also a tripswitch that will automatically switch off if the circuit is overloaded eg if you try to take 10 amps from a 6A circuit. An RCD or RCBO or RCCB is a special switch that will trip out if more than a trickle of current leaks to earth instead of returning to neutral. Typically, an RCD will trip out if more than 30mA or 30 thousandths of an amp leak to earth. It takes 50mA to kill a human being so the theory is an RCD should trip out quick enough to save a life Back to TopWhat is "Notifiable Work" ?Notifiable Work is marked with a "Y" in the table below. You must notify the Local Authority of your intention to carry out this type of work before work commences and the work must be carried out by a competent person or if we do the work we notify the local council via our professional association Non-Notifiable Work is marked with a "X" in the table below. You do not need to notify the local Authority but the work must be in accordance with Part P of the regulations.
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