Guest Posted June 28, 2016 Posted June 28, 2016 Not sure if this is the best section to post in but here goes. Does any one do their own PAT testing? If so, did you do any training or do you just use common sense/on line guidance?
Panders Posted June 28, 2016 Posted June 28, 2016 Dont know my landlords have it done and I leave out all my "stuff" that's electrical. . I think it r eally ought to be an electrician that does this
narnia Posted June 28, 2016 Posted June 28, 2016 http://www.hse.gov.uk/electricity/faq-portable-appliance-testing.htm
Guest Posted June 28, 2016 Posted June 28, 2016 Narnia Thanks for the link - I came across this earlier and it implies if you are deemed competent you can do it yourself. I was just wondering if anyone has gone down this route and how they went about it. (Thinking it might be a job for "Him Indoors" rather than me?)
AliceinWonderland Posted June 29, 2016 Posted June 29, 2016 I have heard that there is an online course you can do, get a certificate and then do it yourself not sure if that's right or not but might be worth a google.
Lyanne Posted June 29, 2016 Posted June 29, 2016 At preschool, we have a chap who comes in each year and does them all at a very good rate - don't know how we found him in the first place, but he's a member of the Rotary Club and involved in Scouting, so wanting to help other charitable organisations. We paid £80 today and as our admin put the invoice away, she commented that he hasn't increased the price at all. At my son's Scout Group, 'we're' (someone other than me! ) getting the certification so 'we' can do it ourselves. So I guess that's going to cost us less than £80 a year, because I keep suggesting we use the chap we have at work...
Foreveryoung Posted June 29, 2016 Posted June 29, 2016 Ive looked at a course once was really cheap, it registered you as a PAT tester only so was something like a one day course.
Guest Posted June 30, 2016 Posted June 30, 2016 Thanks everyone - have found a couple of on-line courses for £30 plus VAT so thinking this might be the way to go.
Helen Posted June 30, 2016 Posted June 30, 2016 Can you put a link on for these please, grumpymum? :1b
Lois Posted July 1, 2016 Posted July 1, 2016 Thanks everyone - I think this is somewhere we might be able to save a bit of money and it all helps. I have a very useful imindoors who could cope with this easily
Guest Posted July 1, 2016 Posted July 1, 2016 http://www.virtual-college.co.uk/products/pat-testing.aspx http://www.firststopsafety.co.uk/product-categories/pat-training Here you go - also found the following quiz on PAT http://www.priorytrainingacademy.co.uk/pat-quiz.html
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