What You Need To Know About Electrics for Buy To Let - Part Four
If you are planning electrical jobs, be aware of the new “Part P” regulations.
Since January 2005, for more complex electrical jobs you now have to use properly qualified people.
The idea was to protect the DIY enthusiast from themselves and put an end to faulty installations by cowboys.
Now, home electrical jobs are classified into “notifiable” and “non–notifiable”.
Non-notifiable work, which you can do yourself, include replacing sockets, outlets, control switches and ceiling roses unless these are in what is deemed to be a high risk area where it is exposed to water, such as a bathroom, kitchen or a garden.
Notifiable work includes any new installation, rewires or partial rewires, new consumer unit fittings, putting in one or more new circuits, extensions to circuits in kitchen bathrooms or gardens, lighting circuits, heating controls, air conditioning, ventilation and extractor fan systems.
Work on showers (whether electrically heated or pumped) or on cookers and the installation of kitchen appliances is notifiable as is work on fire, security or an environmental control systems.
If in doubt, ask the Buildings Control Officer at your local authority.
For notifiable work, the job has to be done or inspected and certified by what’s called a “competent person” - which means a person who has attained at least the British Standard BS7671.
More on this tomorrow.
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Copyright: David Lawrenson 2007
Since January 2005, for more complex electrical jobs you now have to use properly qualified people.
The idea was to protect the DIY enthusiast from themselves and put an end to faulty installations by cowboys.
Now, home electrical jobs are classified into “notifiable” and “non–notifiable”.
Non-notifiable work, which you can do yourself, include replacing sockets, outlets, control switches and ceiling roses unless these are in what is deemed to be a high risk area where it is exposed to water, such as a bathroom, kitchen or a garden.
Notifiable work includes any new installation, rewires or partial rewires, new consumer unit fittings, putting in one or more new circuits, extensions to circuits in kitchen bathrooms or gardens, lighting circuits, heating controls, air conditioning, ventilation and extractor fan systems.
Work on showers (whether electrically heated or pumped) or on cookers and the installation of kitchen appliances is notifiable as is work on fire, security or an environmental control systems.
If in doubt, ask the Buildings Control Officer at your local authority.
For notifiable work, the job has to be done or inspected and certified by what’s called a “competent person” - which means a person who has attained at least the British Standard BS7671.
More on this tomorrow.
Back to main site www.lettingfocus.com
Copyright: David Lawrenson 2007
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Thursday, January 18, 2007.
