WHY CANNOT AN ELECTRICAL ENGINEER BE A QS.

I have only done six EICRs this year, I have lost all enthusiasm where they are concerned, they just seem to be hassle.

Last year I was working away doing them, but it got to the point where it felt like I was doing an exam every time I did the paperwork with the schedule of inspections becoming a multiple choice exam to be completed as quickly as possible whilst scoring 100%.

Some weeks last year I sat down on a Friday or Saturday with eight reports to write up one after another, as I made notes onsite then sat at my desk to do the actual reports on my PC using the certificate software. That was never a job I planned to have or wanted.

I have just emailed a report I did for a long standing customer, I actually wired the original installation back in 2008 for him, he said the these EICRs must be good business for me and was genuinely surprised when I did not respond enthusiastically.

As I asked above, who really wants to be a QS?

Meanwhile there’s a kitchen fitter I spoke to altering a kitchen installation adding sockets and outlets without any training or qualifications and I know that none of his work will comply with the regs or be certified. Apparently the house may be let, so it will be up to someone else to go in to prepare an EICR and say it cannot be let without replacing the old fuse board and adding RCD protection.

But of course alterations and additions to electrical installations in kitchens are no longer notifiable in England under Part P, because the are so simple anyone can do it. 

Who’s the mugs, the electricians who bend over backwards to comply with restrictions placed on them or the guys who just crack on utter regardless? 

I have only done six EICRs this year, I have lost all enthusiasm where they are concerned, they just seem to be hassle.

Last year I was working away doing them, but it got to the point where it felt like I was doing an exam every time I did the paperwork with the schedule of inspections becoming a multiple choice exam to be completed as quickly as possible whilst scoring 100%.

Some weeks last year I sat down on a Friday or Saturday with eight reports to write up one after another, as I made notes onsite then sat at my desk to do the actual reports on my PC using the certificate software. That was never a job I planned to have or wanted.

I have just emailed a report I did for a long standing customer, I actually wired the original installation back in 2008 for him, he said the these EICRs must be good business for me and was genuinely surprised when I did not respond enthusiastically.

As I asked above, who really wants to be a QS?

Meanwhile there’s a kitchen fitter I spoke to altering a kitchen installation adding sockets and outlets without any training or qualifications and I know that none of his work will comply with the regs or be certified. Apparently the house may be let, so it will be up to someone else to go in to prepare an EICR and say it cannot be let without replacing the old fuse board and adding RCD protection.

But of course alterations and additions to electrical installations in kitchens are no longer notifiable in England under Part P, because the are so simple anyone can do it. 

Who’s the mugs, the electricians who bend over backwards to comply with restrictions placed on them or the guys who just crack on utter regardless?