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"Dave Sharp" wrote:


"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!!!


Sounds about right for two solid half days as I just posted (note
to self: should read the whole thread before posting :-)

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 )


I don't know how they'd get away without an inspection at first fix.
After all, BS7671 is quite adamant about things like routing of cables
(see OSG sec. 7.3) and anyone signing off the work will want to know
that cables have been installed correctly in protected zones or are
otherwise mechanically protected. Also there is some (usually ignored)
advice about where you can and can't drill holes in joists. What I want
to know is, why is it ok for a plumber to make a messy notch in a joist
big enough for two 28mm pipes a few inches from the end of a joist, yet
the IEE get all worked up about circular holes and insist that they
should only be within the area between 0.25 and 0.4 of the joist span?

Hwyl!

M.

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