"Doctor Drivel" wrote in message
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"Dave Sharp" wrote in message
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Renovating a house and the guy doing the electrical rewire for me isn't
an
electrician (he's a builder) so I've had to get the local building
control
office involved who charged me £59.99 and said that they employ a local
firm
of electricians to do the inspections for them.

I was told that they need to inspect it when the first fix is complete,
which it now is, and they're coming to see it at 9.00am on Friday. My
question is, what will they be inspecting and looking for?

Is this £60 for all visits? If you do a re-wire yourself, then this £60
is
well worth it. As building control are involved that means you can do all
the work, CU and even in all the wet rooms.



Thanks to all who replied and I will certainly let the group know what goes
on on Friday.

With respect to the cost, there is significant upheaval going on in the
building control offices at the moment and I may have got the application in
just in time, because it looks like charges will be rocketing very soon.
Apparently, the council charges the public £59.99 but is then in turn
charged £200 by the firm of local electricians!!!

The council is now looking towards perhaps using their own workforce of
electricians, whether an inspection at first fix is really necessary or if
just a "final" inspection before the house is powered up will suffice etc.,
etc. I'm just grateful I put in the application when I did and got it for
£59.99 )

Dave.