BS7671 electrical regulations

[cornwell40]

Don’t know if any of our learned members can help on this.

A friend of mine is in the process of taking the lease on a local nightclubwhich has been closed for a while.

Him taking the lease is dependant on the owner of the building coming up with a copy of the electrics safety certificate which apparently runs out in September and is currently lost.

Now it gets a bit murky. The original tester from five years ago has since died and the previous tenant had reccomendations on the certificate carried out but didn’t pay a contractor….so he won’t say what the recommendations were :rolls: understandably.

So, how many copies of the certificate are there, presumably contractor and building owner, but do the IECC, NEIC, NICE 😳 whoever it is have a copy also.

Would going back to square 1 and getting the lot retested cost an arm and a leg, or if he does find the certificate what then needs to be tested, just the recommendations for alterations or the whole building anyway.

Any help on this required as he would like to open soon but (obviously) safely.

Cheers

Tony

[philfish]

Re: BS7671 electrical regulations

Hi, He will need a new landlord cert with every new tenant regardless of the 5 year rule. So it is down to the landlord regardless of if he can not find it or not to provide one.
I doubt very much the niceic or any other governing body would have a copy of the old cert (you could ask them all) usually just the landlord and spark. There is usually 3 copies.
It depends on the contractor and size of the building to how much it will cost. Basic rule of thumb with the testing side is they check 50{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} of the installation if they find a fault they check 75{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} if they find another they check the whole lot. So it really does depend on the contractor to what he finds.
Trouble with commercial /industrial electrics is there is not much in the way of regulation as in the domestic market like part p commercial and industrial does not! You just have to be competent not qualified or anything else which leaves it wide open but that is another subject.
phil

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