Rewiring an unoccupied 3 bed house. How long and how can I get the work inspected.

it should take no more then 10 days for 2 electrician.You should check his ID registration nr or name of his company in electrical safety register

Once the work is complete the electrician should complete a series of tests, dead tests, and live test, once these tests are completed you should be issued with an electrical installation certificate. The electrician then registers the installation with your local councial.

If an electrician and a labour get a clear run at your house on a rewire thats un occupied you should be looking at around a week. At the end of the job you should get a new installation certificate and they should process this through their governing body (niceic, elecsa, nappit) and you should get confirmation roughly 3weeks after from them that they have done so. Hope this helps. Nick NDH Electrical Solutions

Sounds like cowboys, this is a 4 day job for a decent two man team! Demand to see their qualifications etc immediately hire. Its probably also worth hiring an NICEIC electrician to come in and carry out a full electrical installation condition report to independently assess the quality and check test the work thats been done. Very likely to be dfective and not meet the current BS7671:2008 requirements. With regards to the certificate. You should be getting a three page Electrical Installation Certificate at the end of the job and also the work should be notified to Building Control under part P of the building regulations. If the look like copies phone trading standards or the scheme provider whose logo is on the cert (e.g. NICEIC, Elecsa, Nappit) Please bear in mind that if the work is not notified under Part P to LABC then its ilegal and you as the householder could be fined up to £5000. - see links below for more information. http://www.donttakethep.co.uk/partp.html http://www.esc.org.uk/fileadmin/user_upload/documents/public/leaflets/PartP-Web-Oct2012-1.pdf