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I hope somebody can help me here, I really need some advice on who to complain to in this situation please:
Hello, So after months of chasing my landlord, I've finally gotten my hands on the EICR for the rental property. There are some serious issues which makes me strongly suspect the landlord and the electrician colluded to issue the fraudulent EICR. Firstly,
1.) The landlord is listed as the resident, there is no way that this could be an honest mistake.
2.) There was electrical wiring in the living room that was exposed when the safety check was done.
3.) The electrician didn't even go upstairs, but the certificate was for the whole home.
I try to complain to NAPIT and they tell me I have to give the electrician a chance to put things right.
When I called the electrician who carried out the test, he said the landlord had told him that he was the resident of the property. He even admitted to me that the exposed wiring was something the landlord promised to fix after the inspection. Surely that cannot be right? How can an electrician 'pass' a property with the landlord's promise of fixing issues? The call was recorded.
Later in the same day, the original electrician texts me to offers to a free inspection. I agree under the expressed condition that I will get an eicr and the issues in writing. Texts screenshoted as evidence. He finds a variety of issues that he didn't the first time. Then suggests that the date on the EICR isn't the date he did the inspection. He claims somebody tampered with his work and asks me who looked at the house after him. He keeps asking me until I mention a name of some handyman and he jump on that name insisting he must have tampered with the box.
As he leaves, he promises me again that he will give me the EICR and asks for the old EICR photos. Two days later, I get a Message today saying that he cant get involved via WhatsApp.
It's very clear that he planned the whole thing as a reconnaissance mission to gather more info.
So I pass this information onto NAPIT, now they tell me:
"Unfortunately, we cannot proceed with the complaint as the contract for the work was between your landlord and our member. If you wished to pursue it further, you must communicate with your landlord and any complaint to us would have to come from them (as they had the contract with our member)."
Who do I go to? Thanks.
Hello, So after months of chasing my landlord, I've finally gotten my hands on the EICR for the rental property. There are some serious issues which makes me strongly suspect the landlord and the electrician colluded to issue the fraudulent EICR. Firstly,
1.) The landlord is listed as the resident, there is no way that this could be an honest mistake.
2.) There was electrical wiring in the living room that was exposed when the safety check was done.
3.) The electrician didn't even go upstairs, but the certificate was for the whole home.
I try to complain to NAPIT and they tell me I have to give the electrician a chance to put things right.
When I called the electrician who carried out the test, he said the landlord had told him that he was the resident of the property. He even admitted to me that the exposed wiring was something the landlord promised to fix after the inspection. Surely that cannot be right? How can an electrician 'pass' a property with the landlord's promise of fixing issues? The call was recorded.
Later in the same day, the original electrician texts me to offers to a free inspection. I agree under the expressed condition that I will get an eicr and the issues in writing. Texts screenshoted as evidence. He finds a variety of issues that he didn't the first time. Then suggests that the date on the EICR isn't the date he did the inspection. He claims somebody tampered with his work and asks me who looked at the house after him. He keeps asking me until I mention a name of some handyman and he jump on that name insisting he must have tampered with the box.
As he leaves, he promises me again that he will give me the EICR and asks for the old EICR photos. Two days later, I get a Message today saying that he cant get involved via WhatsApp.
It's very clear that he planned the whole thing as a reconnaissance mission to gather more info.
So I pass this information onto NAPIT, now they tell me:
"Unfortunately, we cannot proceed with the complaint as the contract for the work was between your landlord and our member. If you wished to pursue it further, you must communicate with your landlord and any complaint to us would have to come from them (as they had the contract with our member)."
Who do I go to? Thanks.