EICR

Because there’s 19 circuits spread across two consumer units, one of which doesn’t have any RCDs in it at all, so the circuits need reconfiguring to create 13 out of 19 allowing the consumer unit without any RCD protection to be taken out and thrown away. At the same time that rubber cooker circuit needs completely replacing.


Once it is tidied up only 4 of the 19 circuits will remain untouched and still have the same characteristics, so the current EICR will be virtually null and void.


It will need new paperwork detailing the installation after the repairs with a completely new schedule of inspections and test results, the current EICR will be relegated to being a historical document, not something that genuinely details the condition of the installation that will be valid for five years.


Twenty eight days is the legal timeframe for getting the repairs carried out, so if the installation is still as it is now after the 15th of next month the landlord may find the council taking enforcement action.


A label on the consumer units stating a five year retest period would be completely misleading. Three Bulgarians, a Spanish and a German guy living in a HMO are not going to understand the English practice of putting labels on dangerous electrical installations that give the impression they are going to be safe for at least the next five years.

Because there’s 19 circuits spread across two consumer units, one of which doesn’t have any RCDs in it at all, so the circuits need reconfiguring to create 13 out of 19 allowing the consumer unit without any RCD protection to be taken out and thrown away. At the same time that rubber cooker circuit needs completely replacing.


Once it is tidied up only 4 of the 19 circuits will remain untouched and still have the same characteristics, so the current EICR will be virtually null and void.


It will need new paperwork detailing the installation after the repairs with a completely new schedule of inspections and test results, the current EICR will be relegated to being a historical document, not something that genuinely details the condition of the installation that will be valid for five years.


Twenty eight days is the legal timeframe for getting the repairs carried out, so if the installation is still as it is now after the 15th of next month the landlord may find the council taking enforcement action.


A label on the consumer units stating a five year retest period would be completely misleading. Three Bulgarians, a Spanish and a German guy living in a HMO are not going to understand the English practice of putting labels on dangerous electrical installations that give the impression they are going to be safe for at least the next five years.