Hi all, my father in law has a rental property that was completely rewired and with new split load CU five years ago. The installation is now due an inspection. Will the fact that the CU is plastic constitute a "fail"?
I do wish that we could get away from CUs. Let's have a bit of sticky-backed mini-trunking on the ceiling please. ?
WallyW has given it a C3 and the local authority has served a remedial notice. The landlord has appealed to the FtT and counsel has commissioned an expert report from you. What will it say?
(Incidentally, I notice that the "auto saved" message has improved as has the size of the reply box. Well done Lisa and the gang!) ?
The expert report should say (among other things) that the sticky-backed mini-trunking is not compliant with BS7671:2018 (assuming for example it is subject to premature failure during a fire).
At that point the landlord is guilty under regulation 3(1)(a). Even if the landlord hired a competent person to do a proper EICR and the inspector missed it for whatever reason, the landlord is still responsible under the legislation. As I said earlier, the legislation is very badly drafted, and landlords just have to hope that a judge will be sympathetic and declare that making a reasonable effort was good enough.
I do wish that we could get away from CUs. Let's have a bit of sticky-backed mini-trunking on the ceiling please. ?
WallyW has given it a C3 and the local authority has served a remedial notice. The landlord has appealed to the FtT and counsel has commissioned an expert report from you. What will it say?
(Incidentally, I notice that the "auto saved" message has improved as has the size of the reply box. Well done Lisa and the gang!) ?
The expert report should say (among other things) that the sticky-backed mini-trunking is not compliant with BS7671:2018 (assuming for example it is subject to premature failure during a fire).
At that point the landlord is guilty under regulation 3(1)(a). Even if the landlord hired a competent person to do a proper EICR and the inspector missed it for whatever reason, the landlord is still responsible under the legislation. As I said earlier, the legislation is very badly drafted, and landlords just have to hope that a judge will be sympathetic and declare that making a reasonable effort was good enough.
