I will be offering minor electrical work, sockets, lights etc
The Building Regulations allow certain minor works (known as non-notifiable work) to be carried out without having to notify building control or use a registered electrician.
In England, the rules were simplified in April 2013, so that now regulation 12(6A) of the Building Regulations 2010 identifies notifiable work as comprising the installation of a new or replacement consumer unit, the installation of a complete new circuit connected to the consumer unit, or alteration work in and around a bath or shower.
All other work is non-notifiable although, like notifiable work, it should be designed and installed, and inspected, tested and certificated in accordance with BS 7671. If local authorities find that non-notifiable work is unsafe and non-compliant, they can take enforcement action.
For Wales, the Building Regulations still identify non-notifiable work as including:
- Any repair or maintenance work or like-for-like replacement
- Any addition or alteration to an existing circuit that is not in a kitchen, bathroom or outdoors
- Installing or upgrading main or supplementary equipotential bonding
- Installing extra low voltage cabling outside bathrooms for telephone, fire alarm, burglar alarm and heating systems, etc.