Thanks, although it might be a bit more complicated than that. He only
recently had planning granted for the garage, after January in fact. Unless
he can get away with saying he pre-empted the garage being there!

So, I guess that getting certification after the event is a no no?

If, for example, my Grandfather were to sell next year and the buyers (or
buyers solicitor) pressed for certification of the electrical work done,
what should he do? I've tried telling him to get an up-to-date qualified
electrician to do the work to avoid future hassle but, it must be a
generation gap thing, he gets angered at having to fork out quite a bit more
money for exactly the same work. I guess he has a point though!

Allan


"tony sayer" wrote in message
...
In article , Jeff
writes

"Alan" wrote in message
.uk...
Hello.

My grandfather has just had a garage built and has been quoted, from
what
I
can gather, a very reasonable price for getting electricity to the
garage
via armoured cable from his house. The only problem I can see is the
guy
doing the electrics, although a competent and ex-qualified electrician,
is
no longer qualified (retired I think). I am aware of these new
regulations
that have come into force in January this year but I'm wondering, can
this
guy do the work and then get a qualified electrician to inspect and
provide
a certificate for the work? If so, how much is an inspection?

Thanks
Alan

The work was completed in December 2004 wasn't it ;-)


Good job they don't date stamp the cables.....

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Tony Sayer