Jon Fairbairn wrote:

£180 is somewhat past my pain threshold, but it's just about
at the point where it's worthwhile doing, but since I want
to install the thing in a bathroom I'm clobbered with Part P
so have either to pay an electrician something like £200 to
install it or £100+ for building control approval and still
pay an electrician to test it :-(.

If your council is playing part P by the rules then they should not
expect you to pay for any testing. That is what the building notice fee
is for!



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John Rumm writes:

Jon Fairbairn wrote:

£180 is somewhat past my pain threshold, but it's just about
at the point where it's worthwhile doing, but since I want
to install the thing in a bathroom I'm clobbered with Part P
so have either to pay an electrician something like £200 to
install it or £100+ for building control approval and still
pay an electrician to test it :-(.

If your council is playing part P by the rules then they
should not expect you to pay for any testing. That is what
the building notice fee is for!

Thanks for your response; that's interesting. To quote from
their reply to my enquiry:

if the works cost below £2000 then the fixed fee will be
£100 plus vat [...] you will need to add to this the cost
of employing a qualified electrician to test when works
completed

are they not playing by the rules, then?

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Jon Fairbairn coughed up some electrons that declared:

John Rumm writes:

Jon Fairbairn wrote:

£180 is somewhat past my pain threshold, but it's just about
at the point where it's worthwhile doing, but since I want
to install the thing in a bathroom I'm clobbered with Part P
so have either to pay an electrician something like £200 to
install it or £100+ for building control approval and still
pay an electrician to test it :-(.

If your council is playing part P by the rules then they
should not expect you to pay for any testing. That is what
the building notice fee is for!

Thanks for your response; that's interesting. To quote from
their reply to my enquiry:

if the works cost below £2000 then the fixed fee will be
£100 plus vat [...] you will need to add to this the cost
of employing a qualified electrician to test when works
completed

are they not playing by the rules, then?


No

Jon Fairbairn wrote:
John Rumm writes:

Jon Fairbairn wrote:

£180 is somewhat past my pain threshold, but it's just about
at the point where it's worthwhile doing, but since I want
to install the thing in a bathroom I'm clobbered with Part P
so have either to pay an electrician something like £200 to
install it or £100+ for building control approval and still
pay an electrician to test it :-(.
If your council is playing part P by the rules then they
should not expect you to pay for any testing. That is what
the building notice fee is for!

Thanks for your response; that's interesting. To quote from
their reply to my enquiry:

if the works cost below £2000 then the fixed fee will be
£100 plus vat [...] you will need to add to this the cost
of employing a qualified electrician to test when works
completed

are they not playing by the rules, then?

No, go quote chapter 1.26 at them and see what they say.

http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/upl...F_ADP_2006.pdf

To quote:

"1.26 The building control body may choose to carry out the inspection
and testing itself, or to contract out some or all of the work to a
specialist body which will then carry out the work on its behalf.
Building control bodies will carry out the necessary inspection and
testing at their expense, not at the householders' expense."


(no guarantee you will get a result - but some people have...)


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Cheers,

John.

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