Sold House...now they want to sue me

[AtW]

Refer their solicitor to the case of Arkell v. Pressdram.

[Envelope]

Well you might get away with it but it's pretty easy to date the installation due to components used amongst other things. I don't think you can simply get a certificate issued now, part P doesn't work quite that way.

Yeah, apparently the wiring used has been changed from black/red pre 2005 to green/yellow post 2005 - so anything that is coloured that way and falls into the criteria of needing a certificate - needs one. (Agreed - certain minor things don't need a cert)

Thanks for all the responses - I've sent a mail off to the solicitor outlining the fact that my position stands - I await a response

[conned tractor]

Green/yellow?

I think you mean brown and blue.

HTH.

Maybe its Earth calling?

[Envelope]

My solicitor has sent a response rejecting the claims.

I've done a bit of further digging and lo and behold the guy who’s claiming from me is a director of an Electrics company. Taking into account Caveat Emptor surely he’s in a better position than most to realise where there are electrical problems prior to exchange…or had he already spotted them and thought I could make a few quid out of this….

[Sysman]

A director in an Electrics company might just have got that quote from a mate's firm. Ditto with the plumbing estimate.

[Archangel]

This is not totally correct. The Part P regulations allow the householder or a non certified electrician, to add additional sockets and extensions etc to an existing circuit.

Part P does not allow the householder or non certified electrician to add a new ring circuit (where a cable is run from the consumer unit to a couple of sockets and back to the consumer unit) and therefore new sockets.

If you have run an extension to the garage workshop or shed that does not form a new ring circuit, (even if previously there were no sockets in that location), you do not need to have a Part P certificate for the work so you can tell them to **** off.

Hope this helps.

A householder or non certified electrician CAN do work covered by Part P if the work is then certified by a certified electrician, or is covered by a building notice.

HTH

[pzz76077]

Photoshop or a standard DTP package can easily produce any cert you like....100's of em in fact...

PZZ

[conned tractor]

Ah. But did you bleed the radiators?