"Andrew McKay" wrote
| I then looked into the costs. Basically to become registered with
| NICEIC I shall see an extra cost to my business of nearly £2000...
| There will undoubtedly be other sundries which I haven't yet taken
| into account.

Especially the billable hours lost in dealing with all that admin and doing
the training, exams etc.

| Some of the above costs are one-off (for example the KTS1620 would
| only be bought once). Others are recurring. I reckon on having to
| spend at least £1000 per year in maintaining my registration with the
| NICEIC.

If your hourly contribution to fixed costs is £30, that's about an extra
weeks work you'd have to do a year.

Owain