Green Electrical Certs

Depends on what you want and expect. If you want the [wafer thin] guarantee of standards provided for full membership, Approved Contractor, then the red bit and associated logo is the way to go for a quick indication if you cannot actually be bothered to check the credentials of the registered or not entity online at niceic.com, or check the persons attending and installing are suitably qualified and insured.


Tysoft is good and you can use any colour you like; their forms are loosely based on NICEIC format, in fact some may say near identical.


If it is just for Part P and dwellings, and you like the little house logo on the cert, the purple is the way to go.


There is a complaints and action procedure associated with the level of membership [stop chuckling], so if you are expecting some level of standard for say commercial/industrial and the spec says use an NICEIC Approved Contractor so there is at least some theoretical route of redress if the work is rubbish or unsafe, but you use simply a Domestic Installer [cute little house badge] or a firm not registered at all with them, there will be no guarantee of standards provided by the NICEIC for that scope of work.


Very much the same for Periodic Inspection, there is a demarcation on what is notionally guaranteed by level of membership [you are still sniggering at the back there, stop it!]


Of course all things fall flat if the person attending site and installing or inspecting is not suitably competent, as can happen as only the firm or entity is registered, individuals are not. So, as stated by others, check the individual as well as the Firm. The individual is a bit more difficult to verify, but someone with an up to date JIB/ECS card with "registered electrician" on it is a good start.

Depends on what you want and expect. If you want the [wafer thin] guarantee of standards provided for full membership, Approved Contractor, then the red bit and associated logo is the way to go for a quick indication if you cannot actually be bothered to check the credentials of the registered or not entity online at niceic.com, or check the persons attending and installing are suitably qualified and insured.


Tysoft is good and you can use any colour you like; their forms are loosely based on NICEIC format, in fact some may say near identical.


If it is just for Part P and dwellings, and you like the little house logo on the cert, the purple is the way to go.


There is a complaints and action procedure associated with the level of membership [stop chuckling], so if you are expecting some level of standard for say commercial/industrial and the spec says use an NICEIC Approved Contractor so there is at least some theoretical route of redress if the work is rubbish or unsafe, but you use simply a Domestic Installer [cute little house badge] or a firm not registered at all with them, there will be no guarantee of standards provided by the NICEIC for that scope of work.


Very much the same for Periodic Inspection, there is a demarcation on what is notionally guaranteed by level of membership [you are still sniggering at the back there, stop it!]


Of course all things fall flat if the person attending site and installing or inspecting is not suitably competent, as can happen as only the firm or entity is registered, individuals are not. So, as stated by others, check the individual as well as the Firm. The individual is a bit more difficult to verify, but someone with an up to date JIB/ECS card with "registered electrician" on it is a good start.