Verifiable Credentials

Our Accreditations —
Real Schemes, Verifiable Numbers.

Six independent credentials covering competent-person registration, health & safety assessment, technical qualifications, government quality endorsement, building-regulations compliance, and the current wiring standard. Every membership number below is real and can be verified directly with the issuing body.

Why this page exists

Electrical work is one of the few trades where membership claims really matter — bad work can kill, and you should know who you’re letting into your property. Anyone can stick a logo in a footer; not everyone can produce a current scheme number. This page explains what each badge in our trust strip actually means, what it covers, and where you can verify it.

If you ever want to check us before booking, every link below goes straight to the issuing body’s public register.

Plain-English explanation →

01 / Competent Person Scheme

NAPIT

Membership No. 66245

NAPIT (the National Association of Professional Inspectors and Testers) is a UK government-authorised Competent Person Scheme for the electrical trade, registered with the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (now part of MHCLG). Members are independently audited every year against a strict technical, insurance, and procedural standard.

Being a NAPIT-approved contractor means we can self-certify notifiable electrical work in dwellings under Building Regulations — we issue the Electrical Installation Certificate, NAPIT lodges the Building Regulations Compliance Certificate with your local authority, and you receive a six-year Insurance Backed Guarantee on the work.

NAPIT membership also covers our scope to issue EICRs (Electrical Installation Condition Reports), Minor Works Certificates, and certification on full rewires and consumer-unit replacements.

Annual on-site technical assessment
Self-certification of Part P notifiable work
Insurance Backed Guarantee on every certified job
Public consumer protection through NAPIT’s complaints procedure

Verify on NAPIT register Why NAPIT matters →

02 / Health & Safety Assessment

CHAS

Membership No. 158368

CHAS (the Contractors Health and Safety Assessment Scheme) is the UK’s founding SSIP (Safety Schemes in Procurement) member. CHAS accreditation is the standard pre-qualification for working on commercial sites, public-sector contracts, housing-association frameworks, schools, healthcare, and most multi-trade construction projects.

The CHAS audit assesses our written Health & Safety policy, risk-assessment and method-statement (RAMS) procedures, training records, insurance cover (£2m public liability, employer’s liability), accident reporting, and competence management. We renew it annually.

If a contracts manager or principal contractor asks for our SSIP certificate before issuing a purchase order, this is the one they’re asking for. Our certificate can be downloaded direct from the CHAS portal — just request it and we’ll forward a current PDF.

Annual independent H&S management audit
SSIP-recognised across UK procurement
Required for housing associations, councils, schools, healthcare
RAMS, training records, insurance all verified

Verify on CHAS directory

03 / Vocational Qualification

City & Guilds 2391

Inspect & Test · Held by Director

City & Guilds 2391 — Inspection and Testing of Electrical Installations is the recognised UK qualification for electricians who carry out periodic inspection, testing, and certification of electrical installations. It’s the qualification you’ll see on every credible EICR provider’s credentials list, and it’s assessed by closed-book exam plus practical observation.

Holding 2391 means our director is qualified to design test sequences, interpret continuity, insulation-resistance, polarity, earth-fault-loop and RCD readings, classify defects (C1, C2, C3, FI), and produce a legally-defensible Electrical Installation Condition Report. We use a calibrated Megger MFT multifunction tester on every inspection.

Without 2391 (or its predecessor 2394/2395), an electrician cannot competently issue an EICR. If anyone is offering you a cheap EICR without listing this qualification on their paperwork, ask why.

Closed-book theory exam plus practical assessment
Required competence for issuing EICRs
Covers BS 7671 inspection schedule and test sequence
Director also holds City & Guilds 2382 (18th Edition) and 2365 (Electrical Installation)

About 2391 at City & Guilds

04 / Government-Endorsed Quality

TrustMark

Government Endorsed via NAPIT

TrustMark is the only government-endorsed quality scheme for trades operating in or around UK homes. It’s licensed by the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, and a contractor can only be listed if they meet defined standards on technical competence, customer service, and trading practice.

Our TrustMark listing is held through our NAPIT scheme operator and renewed annually. As a TrustMark-registered business we agree to the TrustMark Customer Charter — a published code of conduct covering quotations, contracts, deposits, work standards, dispute resolution, and after-sales service.

If something ever goes wrong on a TrustMark-listed job, the homeowner has a defined route to independent dispute resolution — we don’t mark our own homework. Most cowboys can’t accept that level of accountability, which is why most aren’t listed.

Government-endorsed (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
Customer Charter and code of conduct
Independent dispute resolution route
Required for many Green Homes Grant / ECO scheme works

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05 / Building Regulations

Part P

Self-Certification via NAPIT 66245

Part P of the Building Regulations (Schedule 1, Part P — Electrical Safety) is the legal framework covering domestic electrical work in dwellings in England and Wales. It applies to fixed wiring — new circuits, consumer-unit replacements, work in special locations like bathrooms and kitchens, and outbuildings.

Notifiable Part P work has to be registered with the local authority Building Control. Homeowners can do this manually (slow, expensive), or use a Competent Person Scheme installer who self-certifies through their scheme. Because we’re NAPIT-approved (66245), we self-certify all notifiable work — you receive a Building Regulations Compliance Certificate within 30 days, posted by NAPIT.

If your fuse board has been changed without a compliance certificate on the paperwork, that’s a Part P breach — and a problem at conveyancing time. Every consumer-unit replacement we do is notified, certified, and lodged.

Self-certification of all notifiable domestic work
Building Regulations Compliance Certificate within 30 days
Required for new circuits, fuse-board changes, bathroom/kitchen work
Avoids manual Building Control notification fees

Read Part P at GOV.UK

06 / Wiring Standard

BS 7671 18th Edition

BS 7671:2018 + Amendment 2:2022

BS 7671 — the IET Wiring Regulations — is the British Standard that defines safe electrical installation in the UK. The current edition is the 18th, BS 7671:2018, incorporating Amendment 2:2022 (effective March 2022 with a transition period to September 2022). Every installation we design, install, test, and certify is BS 7671 compliant.

Amendment 2 introduced significant changes including Surge Protection Devices (SPDs) on most domestic consumer units, AFDDs (Arc Fault Detection Devices) recommended for higher-risk circuits, updated rules on EV charging point installations (Type A or Type F RCBO required — we always use Type A on EV chargers), and revised guidance on metallic consumer units. We work to the current standard, not the one our director qualified on.

Our certificates and EICRs reference the current BS 7671 clause numbers. If you compare a recent DS Electrical EICR with one issued five years ago by another firm, you’ll see different defect codes and updated test ranges — that’s the standard moving forward, and us moving with it.

BS 7671:2018 + Amendment 2:2022 current
SPD fitted on all new consumer units (Reg 443)
Type A RCBO on every EV charger installation
Director holds City & Guilds 2382 to current edition

BS 7671 at the IET

Our Accreditations —Real Schemes, Verifiable Numbers.

NAPIT

CHAS

City & Guilds 2391

TrustMark

Part P

BS 7671 18th Edition

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