EICRs and LANDLORDS

[marconi]

Are you suggesting that a perfectly safe and sound property can't be let to a new tenant until a fresh EICR has been generated?

How ridiculous!
This sounds like a cracking good little earner for the electrical trade, but a completely unnecessary and over the top pain in the neck for everyone else concerned.

Best of luck with that one, but it doesn't take much thought to see through the true motive behind the idea.

By MArconi - I said 'In-date EICR' not new one each time a tenant takes up occupancy.

 

[davesparks]

Are you suggesting that a perfectly safe and sound property can't be let to a new tenant until a fresh EICR has been generated?

How ridiculous!
This sounds like a cracking good little earner for the electrical trade, but a completely unnecessary and over the top pain in the neck for everyone else concerned.

Best of luck with that one, but it doesn't take much thought to see through the true motive behind the idea.

How do you know the property is safe and sound?
An inspection by a competant person should be carried out before each tenant moves in.
I do such things for a local letting agent and some of the things I've found where previous tenants have fitted their own light fittings etc have rendered the installation somewhat less than 'safe and sound'

 

[davesparks]

By MArconi - I said 'In-date EICR' not new one each time a tenant takes up occupancy.

But that's the same thing, an EICR 'lasts' for say 5 or 10 years OR until the change of occupant

 

[marconi]

But that's the same thing, an EICR 'lasts' for say 5 or 10 years OR until the change of occupant

Please see Information for Landlords & Responsibilities | Electrical Safety First

 

[davesparks]

Please see Information for Landlords & Responsibilities | Electrical Safety First

See it for what? It just another in a line of 'guides' presenting opinions as facts from another self serving spin-off of the NICEIC

 

[Octopus]

Please see Information for Landlords & Responsibilities | Electrical Safety First

Hum.... every 5 years - what a load of tosh.

When I do an EICR, I give the recommended retest date based on the condition of the installation and NOT based on a 5 year term stated on a website.

 

[marconi]

See it for what? It just another in a line of 'guides' presenting opinions as facts from another self serving spin-off of the NICEIC

Mmm. I think I will disengage.

 

[marconi]

Hum.... every 5 years - what a load of tosh.

When I do an EICR, I give the recommended retest date based on the condition of the installation and NOT based on a 5 year term stated on a website.

If not an HMO, the reference actually says 'at least every five years'. I think we are agreeing.

 

[Octopus]

If not an HMO, the reference actually says 'at least every five years'. I think we are agreeing.

Er no... I may recommend 2 years, or I may recommend 10 years.

are you a sparky?

 

[marconi]

Er no... I may recommend 2 years, or I may recommend 10 years.

are you a sparky?

No, if by sparky you mean a qualified electrician. I am a chartered electrical engineer and chartered engineer.