Independent Consumer Advice
This page will refer you to independant advice, to help you evaluate if the tradesmen or companies you employ live up to any promises they make about electrical safety.
NICEIC Protection!
As we are NICEIC members, you as the customer are protected due to their "Platinum Promise", which is a guarantee.
Dependant on the NICEIC rather than your contractors' business, this provides you with assurance you will be protected.
Bathrooms
Bathrooms are one of the "special locations" within the BS7671 electrical regulations and require extra caution and protective measures to make sure it is safe.
Builders and fitters may alter your electrical installation - but are they genuinely compliant with (and fully understand) all the regulations?
How can you be sure?
Checking Electrics
Legally required checks by landlords for rental properties, these are also a very good idea prior to a house purchase, and for regular checks of the safety and condition of your installation.
The proper name is "EICR - Electrical Installation Condition Report", and used to be called a "Period Inspection Report".
Kitchens
Another area of the house where particular risks can exist, but are often remodelled with a beautiful aesthetic but a very, very poor standard of electrical safety.
How can you make sure your kitchen fitter really does the electrics safely?
Gardens
Gardens should be enjoyable without worrying about the safety of the electrical equipment.
This guide will help you to know how to be sure everything is safe.
Loft Conversions, Extensions
Another classic situation where builders might say "we can do the electrics too", but then later a proper electrician finds out what exactly they have done and has to repair it at great expense.
Part P - is my contractor truly compliant?
Why does this matter, and more importantly how can I check that my electrician or builder is actually doing everything properly?
The guide will tell you how to make sure that what you need is included in your written agreements with your tradesmen.
How to tell if your electrics are safe
Check this short video from the NICEIC campaign. Use the buttons below to find authoritative and independant resources and check the credentials of electrical contractors (including us).
NICEIC Platinum Promise
Full details on the consumer protection offered by the NICEIC for domestic customers ordering work from an NICEIC contractor (such as ourselves)
Electrics Checks
Like an MOT for cars, and mandatory for rented properties, a regular check identifies faults or defects in a pro-active way.
Bathrooms
Potentially very safe, potentially very unsafe, or even dangerous. How can you tell what is required?
Gardens
Potentially difficult to make safe especially due to the potential for climate influence, this guide has valuable advice.
Extensions and Loft Conversions
Typically a job where you have to rely on qualified tradesmen for many aspects of the work. Maybe the builder says he can "do the electrics" too, but is he certified electrically, or just a builder with a mate who says knows which wire goes where?!
Part P of the Building Regulations
Literally since the introduction of the law (that under the Building Regulations, which are law, part P) all electrical work must comply with BS7671 (which means in turn, certificates!) Fewer Lives have been lost and fewer fires have been caused since this became law.
How can you tell if your electrician is complying properly? What should you look for? Promises are one thing, but what must a good contractor make clear in his quotation that he will provide?
