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Electrics in a new build house

Lisa Miles
Hi all


I've had an anonymous question for the forum which I hope you can help with. 


Can an electrician sign off another electrician's installation in a new build house after it's been covered up i.e. plastered over etc?
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    I had this experience a few years ago with my own home “extension” (a partial rebuild). Builder number one who had done excellent work next door, promised for months to start work, then stopped taking my calls on the agreed start date. Builder number two, lost productivity and it became clear had personal money troubles in the background. We were just getting to electrics and plumbing , when his proposed Electrician was someone who I know vaguely from the local pub. Probably OK, but it was another symptom that he didn’t have the team that he promised, so when the local plumber who he had approached credit checked him, alarm bells really started ringing. I was able to cut my losses, but he came round and smashed a window in retribution.  The third builder introduced an electrician, who I was informed had part P certification. He was clearly capable and productive, but came from some distance away. What he did was good, but when it came to finishing off, there wasn’t enough payment left to tempt him back and we couldn’t contact him.  Not a major problem as I could do that myself, although my last C&G exam was 16th edition (I was trained on the 14th).


    The Building Control Officer couldn’t sign it off without a completion certificate, but was happy to agree that an Electrical Installation Condition Report would be sufficient. This was interesting and instructive, because a number of issues needed attention. These were minor and mostly relating to labelling. There was one technical issue, relating to an MCB rating where he was wrong, but it wasn’t worth squabbling, so I went along with it.  Because the new extension had its own consumer unit, the “old” part of the property wasn’t inspected.  If it had been, then it has several deficiencies that I’m happy to live with, because the risk is very small and cost of renewal high. In that context some would argue that my less than five year old consumer units should be replaced.       

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    I had this experience a few years ago with my own home “extension” (a partial rebuild). Builder number one who had done excellent work next door, promised for months to start work, then stopped taking my calls on the agreed start date. Builder number two, lost productivity and it became clear had personal money troubles in the background. We were just getting to electrics and plumbing , when his proposed Electrician was someone who I know vaguely from the local pub. Probably OK, but it was another symptom that he didn’t have the team that he promised, so when the local plumber who he had approached credit checked him, alarm bells really started ringing. I was able to cut my losses, but he came round and smashed a window in retribution.  The third builder introduced an electrician, who I was informed had part P certification. He was clearly capable and productive, but came from some distance away. What he did was good, but when it came to finishing off, there wasn’t enough payment left to tempt him back and we couldn’t contact him.  Not a major problem as I could do that myself, although my last C&G exam was 16th edition (I was trained on the 14th).


    The Building Control Officer couldn’t sign it off without a completion certificate, but was happy to agree that an Electrical Installation Condition Report would be sufficient. This was interesting and instructive, because a number of issues needed attention. These were minor and mostly relating to labelling. There was one technical issue, relating to an MCB rating where he was wrong, but it wasn’t worth squabbling, so I went along with it.  Because the new extension had its own consumer unit, the “old” part of the property wasn’t inspected.  If it had been, then it has several deficiencies that I’m happy to live with, because the risk is very small and cost of renewal high. In that context some would argue that my less than five year old consumer units should be replaced.       

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