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Electrician understanding of Electrical Vehicle Charging installations

Jaymack

I note from my future assessment visit under notes, that the NiCEIC reserve the right to visit the location where an EVC installation has been installed. Methinks there may be concern on the quality of installations by their members whether future or not. I have enrolled on their onsite course which includes a copy of the IET Code of Practice - Edition 4. I did enrol since I was aware of the knowledge and other standards required by the installer. I have not carried out any of these such installations but I was asked to quote for one, so having seen what was involved w.r.t. earthing requirements and consultation with the supplier etc. I gave an initial quote of £50 for an initial survey etc. to this domestic property. I didn't get any response so I assume that the eventual contractor simply gave a quote. I am now concerned on the quality of such installations. Should it be made compulsory to inspect such installations by a competent authority before energisation?'

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  • There is a button at the top of the NAPIT notifications page on their website for members to report dodgy electrical work, I’m not sure what happens if you press it, but it is there.

    Regards giving Competent Person Scheme the right to inspect your work it is nonsense, it’s down to your customers to decide if they will allow access and most customers don’t want an assessor from a CPS scheme anywhere near their homes or businesses, generally the customers chose an electrician they trust and unless there’s an obvious problem they don’t want someone else to check it.

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  • There is a button at the top of the NAPIT notifications page on their website for members to report dodgy electrical work, I’m not sure what happens if you press it, but it is there.

    Regards giving Competent Person Scheme the right to inspect your work it is nonsense, it’s down to your customers to decide if they will allow access and most customers don’t want an assessor from a CPS scheme anywhere near their homes or businesses, generally the customers chose an electrician they trust and unless there’s an obvious problem they don’t want someone else to check it.

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  • in reply to Sparkingchip
    Sparkingchip said:
    Regards giving Competent Person Scheme the right to inspect your work it is nonsense, it’s down to your customers to decide if they will allow access and most customers don’t want an assessor from a CPS scheme anywhere near their homes or businesses, generally the customers chose an electrician they trust and unless there’s an obvious problem they don’t want someone else to check it.

    The customer is not usually in the best position to judge electrical work, they are simply interested in the superficial aspects, not what is behind the scenes like the Punch and Judy show. I fear it will take an incident for action to be taken. However, it is during the assessment time that they reserve the right to inspect EVC installations but they can still vet the paper work; the customer has the right as usual to deny access to a property for whatever reason. I agree that the industry needs tightening up w.r.t. standards but the competent person schemes seem to be too financially motivated ........... period.

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  • in reply to Jaymack
    Jaymack said:
    The customer is not usually in the best position to judge electrical work

    Does the customer know that? Joy

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