Overview
NICEIC has been assessing the technical competence of electricians since 1956. Their aim is to protect everyone who uses electricity from unsafe electrical installations anywhere. To achieve this, they maintain a register of qualified, competent electricians.
They look at a representative sample of the electrical contractor’s work, their premises, documentation, equipment, and the competence of their key supervisory electrician. Once the contractors become registered with NICEIC, they are re-assessed on a regular basis to ensure high standards.
Enrolment with NICEIC is voluntary. Nobody makes an electrician do it, which is rather the point of asking whether yours has bothered.
ProElec Electrical Services Ltd is an NICEIC Approved Contractor, registration number 614176000. You are welcome to check it, and copies of our certification are available on request.
The main benefits of using a contractor registered by NICEIC include:
Safety and competence
Electricians registered by NICEIC are assessed on a regular basis to ensure that they are competent and capable of meeting the relevant technical and safety standards, codes of practice and rules of the Schemes they are registered to.
Compliance with building regulations
Electricians and electrical contractors registered to NICEIC Building Regulations Schemes are authorised to self-certify their work without hindrance from Local Authority Building Control. This saves you both time and money when undertaking work that requires notification under the Building Regulations, for example: a house rewire or a fuse board replacement.
Insurance Backed Warranty
NICEIC operate an insurance backed warranty covering notifiable work done by registered contractors. The purpose of the warranty is to protect consumers should any work be found not to comply with the Building Regulations under circumstances where the contractor is no longer in business to undertake the necessary remedial work.
So remember to ask the contractor for your certificates on completion of work. That means an Electrical Installation Certificate or a Minor Electrical Installation Works Certificate, and where the work was notifiable, a Building Regulations Compliance Certificate. There is no such thing as a “Part P certificate”, whatever anyone tells you at the door.
Warranty terms and limits change from time to time, so please contact us, or check with NICEIC directly, for the current scheme details rather than taking a figure off a website.
Guarantee of Standards Scheme
NICEIC expects its registered contractors to provide a quality service to their customers and, therefore, endeavour to resolve all complaints about the technical standard of their electrical work. If a customer and an Approved Contractor are unable to resolve an alleged deficiency in the technical standard of electrical work, the customer can make a formal complaint to NICEIC.
NICEIC will help facilitate the negotiations between the contractor and the complainant.
The NICEIC complaints procedure requires the registered contractor to resolve the technical deficiency without additional cost to the consumer. However, if the contractor does not undertake the required remedial work, NICEIC’s Guarantee of Standards Scheme ensures it will be done by another NICEIC-registered contractor, at no cost to the customer.
Independent Complaints Procedure
NICEIC operates an independent complaints procedure. If the electrical work of a registered contractor is found to be below the accepted technical standard, NICEIC requires the contractor to correct the work, at no additional cost to the customer.
NICEIC is concerned solely with the safety and technical standard of the electrical work carried out by Approved Contractors and their electricians, and the standard of certification and periodic inspection reports which Approved Contractors are responsible for producing.
Why use us?
All our electricians and staff are uniformed and carry company identification.
Every electrician works to the 18th Edition IET Wiring Regulations (BS 7671), which is the national safety standard for electrical installation work.
We are also MCS certified, MCS number 00074771, which is what allows a solar PV or battery storage installation to qualify for the Smart Export Guarantee.
More information
For more information please contact us or telephone us directly on 01925 222197