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Electrical certificate for kitchen and bathroom refit and new ensuite

Anonymous user 23/02/2024 - 3.18 PM

Our builder did a full refit of our kitchen and bathroom and put in a new en suite shower room a few years ago. At the time I did not know that I should ask about electrical certification for the work but now we are selling the house I have realised that we should have asked for this at the time. Can anyone advise what is needed in terms of documentation / certification and what I can do? I am still in touch with the original builder so could ask him to do something retrospective if that is a possibility. Thanks!

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6 Answers

Anonymous user

Only Third Party Electrical Certifiers registered with NAPIT or STROMA are allowed to certify works done by other/non registered / electricians, DIY installers. and they are allowed by Their Registration Body to do Notification to the Local Authority Building Regulations Control behalf on some else. if NICEIC or ELECSA domestic installer , even approved contractor will Certify by ELECTRICAL INSTALLATION CERTIFICATE and LABC Notification work done by other person / not employed by this Registered Company / is illegal and can cause problems in a future
Answered9 August 2018
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DEACON ELECTRICAL SERVICES

Rating: 5 out of 5
Grimsby
EMM is quite correct here. Why not get an EICR done on the property. By the way, you or anyone else should have to ask for a certificate. It should be issued regardless.
Answered10 August 2018
1

Blue Sky Property Services

Rating: 5 out of 5
Great Yarmouth
Hi, at its simplest, you need a qualified electrician who is part P registered to complete a certicate showing the work is to the required standard. Hopefuly the builder can get this organised with his electrician as getting other electrician to certify another's work is not always easy.
Answered9 August 2018
0

Excelsior Engineering

Rating: 5 out of 5
Merthyr Tydfil
Just get an EICR carried out on the property. Loop hole
Answered14 August 2018
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Anonymous user

What Excelsior said. Covers the entire property that way, easier with paperwork for selling. Your solicitor should have asked you for your EICR certificate anyway to pass on to the new buyers.
Answered21 August 2018
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Willow Electrical Services Limited

Rating: 5 out of 5
Shoreham By Sea
Builder would have only needed to provide a cert covering the individual circuits that he had either extended or made any alterations to and or any circuits that fell within the required documentation fields as in notifiable works, eg, kitchen circuits and the upstairs lighting so the rest of your house would be covered so you’d still need to instruct a qualified electrician to certify all other circuits. Also if someone contacted me to come and now cert work I’d done over 2yrs ago I’d actually laugh at them as who knows what’s happened to that install during all that time???
Answered20 March 2021
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