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Electrics in a new build house

Hi all


I've had an anonymous question for the forum which I hope you can help with. 


Can an electrician sign off another electrician's installation in a new build house after it's been covered up i.e. plastered over etc?
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  • It will be an EICR, because for whatever reason the original designer/installer is not actually  available to sign on the dotted line  - there may be legitimate reason for this, or he may have been the type that  clicked his spurs, cocked his hat and rode off into the sunset once the cheque cleared.

    The best that anyone coming to the party late can do, is inspect what has already been put there by persons unknown, and report on what they find. How much they decide to dismantle will be decided by how good or bad  the first bits appear when they get looked at .

    Somewhere between

    1) 'it's neater than if I did it myself, no further opening up is needed' and

    2) 'This is  !"£$y awful and all needs to be redone from scratch '

    is the decision on what needs to happen next.

    And it is not so much if you trust your own trainee wireman or apprentice, but if you trust the other chaps,  who may be on his first day, or his 300th..
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  • It will be an EICR, because for whatever reason the original designer/installer is not actually  available to sign on the dotted line  - there may be legitimate reason for this, or he may have been the type that  clicked his spurs, cocked his hat and rode off into the sunset once the cheque cleared.

    The best that anyone coming to the party late can do, is inspect what has already been put there by persons unknown, and report on what they find. How much they decide to dismantle will be decided by how good or bad  the first bits appear when they get looked at .

    Somewhere between

    1) 'it's neater than if I did it myself, no further opening up is needed' and

    2) 'This is  !"£$y awful and all needs to be redone from scratch '

    is the decision on what needs to happen next.

    And it is not so much if you trust your own trainee wireman or apprentice, but if you trust the other chaps,  who may be on his first day, or his 300th..
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