Niceic Domestic rewires Manchester

 

 

Domestic rewires Manchester, Why should homeowners choose an NICEIC electrician?

As something we use every day, it’s easy to take electricity for granted. If you attempt to do DIY electrics or use an unregistered electrician to carry out work in your home you could be putting your family’s lives at risk.

Each year around 12,500 house fires, 750 serious injuries and 10 deaths are caused by unsafe electrics in the home.

Cutting corners can have dangerous consequences, so in the interest of safety homeowners should use a professional and fully qualified electrician to carry out electrical work in their home, such as one registered with NICEIC.

NICEIC was set up in the 1950s and is the leading independent voluntary electrical regulatory body assessing the competence of UK electricians. NICEIC maintains a register of around 20,000 Approved Contractors and Domestic Installers.

To en-roll with NICEIC all electricians, and anyone they employ, must comply with national safety standards and codes of practice. They are regularly inspected, which means NICEIC is a symbol you can trust, and is only displayed by electricians offering a dependable service.

Domestic rewires Manchester, You must notify building control or use a registered electrician for the following:

A complete new electrical system or total rewire all areas
Fuse box change all areas
Adding a socket to an existing circuit only in Kitchen or Bathroom or Garden
Adding a light switch to an existing circuit only in Kitchen or Bathroom or Garden
Installing and fitting a storage heater all areas
Installing extra low voltage lighting all areas
Installing a new electric supply to garden shed, garage, greenhouse or other out building all areas
Installing a solar photovoltaic power supply all areas
Installing electric ceiling or floor heating all areas
Installing an electricity generator all areas
Installing telephone or extra-low voltage wiring for communication or IT equipment only in Kitchen or Bathroom or Garden
Installing a socket or lighting point outdoors all areas
Fitting and connecting a new electric shower with a different kW rating all areas
Installing a garden pond pump to the fixed electrics, including supply all areas
Installing an electric sauna all areas

Domestic rewires Manchester, You can undertake the work yourself to BS7671, there is no need to inform building control, however NICEIC would recommend you use a registered electrician to carry out any electrical work in your home for the following:

Adding a socket to an existing circuit but not in Kitchen or Bathroom or Garden
Adding a light switch to an existing circuit but not in Kitchen or Bathroom or Garden
Connecting a cooker to an existing connection
Replacing a damaged cable for a single circuit, on a like-for-like basis
Replacing a damaged accessory, such as a socket or ceiling rose
Replacing a light fitting
Installing telephone or extra-low voltage wiring for communication or IT equipment but not in Kitchen or Bathroom or Garden
Replacing an immersion heater
Adding a socket or light to an existing circuit in a garden shed, garage, greenhouse or other outbuilding but not in Kitchen or Bathroom or Garden