As of January 2012 in the UK the rules change and the report will be known as an electrical conditioning report, you must have one every 5 years in a commercial property, sooner in others, currently known as fixed electrical testing or periodic electrical testing on a nationwide platform, ensuring your electrics operate inside health and safety regulations.
Home Owners – are you aware that…
Under the new law, Part P of the building regulations that came into force in January the 1st 2005, most of the electrical works at home have to be carried out by a qualified electrician, registered under a government approved scheme (NICEIC, or ELECSA, or NAPIT)
- Each year 12,500 fires in UK homes are caused by old or faulty electrics
- Every year, 10 people die and 750 people are seriously injured because of faulty electrics
- 40% of the people had no idea about the age of the wiring within their home and 1 of 5 said their wiring was as much as 30 years old
- 52% of the people questioned did not know how often house wiring should be checked by a qualified electrician
- According to the latest property survey, 65% of the London’s properties are using old wiring and based on the current standards they may not even be safe to use
- If you hire the services of unregistered electrician, you have to wait for an electrical installation approval from the local authority building control inspector, before the installation starts being used.
- If the inspector is not satisfied, he can ask for changes to be made or he can even insist for a complete rewire of the property to meet the current standards
- Statistic shows that a D.I.Y. or unregistered electrician can cost you twice as much time and money than the work done by a qualified professional electrician
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