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Competitive pricing for Domestic EICR's. Why so low?

Jaymack
There's a few sites that offer Electrical Reports, most with registered electricians; albeit some quote VAT and some without. Most quoted prices for these, do not reflect a reasonable charge, based upon qualifications, experience, thoroughness and probable time spent.

1. Are there too many players? 2. Are the standards falling? 3. Is too much reliance placed on follow up work?. 4. Are those organisations who "register" inspectors not being sufficiently critical.? 5. Should there be additional or separate registration for electrical inspectors?. 6. City and Guilds 2391 for Inspection and Testing, was considered as being too difficult to pass and watered down by the players, is that the reason for the proliference of players and a race to the bottom?. 


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    I thought Mr Savery's video was very entertaining and is language somewhat colourful.


    The EICR in the video was yet another sample of the majority of EICRs carried out by knuckle scraping numpties.


    I wonder if the NICEIC saw the advert by one of their Approved Contractors indicating their operatives doing 4 or more EICRs a day would cause them to undertake urgent investigations as to the integrity of the enterprise they are approving? After all the are a consumer protection body I believe?


    I fully support the new requirements set out in the latest EAS document  ( https://electrical.theiet.org/media/2349/eas-effective-from-1st-september-2020.pdf) for individuals carrying out inspection and testing to be qualified. I assume that the Certsure and NAPIT companies will be revising their assessment criteria and outcome recording forms to reflect their examination of the qualifications held by individuals employed by the approved company?


    I note with interest the NICEIC rules have been changed to ensure that individuals need 2 years experience before they can register for NICEIC Approved Contractor, NICEIC Domestic Installer and Elecsa schemes. This is also reflected in an article on page 9 of the latest Connections magazine.


    Does anyone want to debate Mr Savery's remarks re. not recording non-compliances with the current standard if they complied with a previous edition of BS 7671 and The HSE note on Page 13 of the 18th Edition.




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    I thought Mr Savery's video was very entertaining and is language somewhat colourful.


    The EICR in the video was yet another sample of the majority of EICRs carried out by knuckle scraping numpties.


    I wonder if the NICEIC saw the advert by one of their Approved Contractors indicating their operatives doing 4 or more EICRs a day would cause them to undertake urgent investigations as to the integrity of the enterprise they are approving? After all the are a consumer protection body I believe?


    I fully support the new requirements set out in the latest EAS document  ( https://electrical.theiet.org/media/2349/eas-effective-from-1st-september-2020.pdf) for individuals carrying out inspection and testing to be qualified. I assume that the Certsure and NAPIT companies will be revising their assessment criteria and outcome recording forms to reflect their examination of the qualifications held by individuals employed by the approved company?


    I note with interest the NICEIC rules have been changed to ensure that individuals need 2 years experience before they can register for NICEIC Approved Contractor, NICEIC Domestic Installer and Elecsa schemes. This is also reflected in an article on page 9 of the latest Connections magazine.


    Does anyone want to debate Mr Savery's remarks re. not recording non-compliances with the current standard if they complied with a previous edition of BS 7671 and The HSE note on Page 13 of the 18th Edition.




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