Landlord electrical safety certificate

Chris Pearson:

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.

Chris Pearson:

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.