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PRS SECONDS AWAY ROUND 2

John Peckham
I had an email today from one of my network of contractors concerning a refusal by a letting agent accepting an EIC for the purposes of satisfying the requirements for PRS.


The installation is new in May this year and the contractor has issued an EIC for 10 years. The letting agent has refused the EIC and wants an EICR to satisfy the requirements for letting and the PRS .


My observations are.


1. We teach inspecting and testing students that an EICR is a "report" and not a certificate.

2. We teach inspecting and testing students that an EIC is a "certificate" and not a "report".

3. The PRS legislation requires a "report" from a qualified  person. No mention of a certificate.

4. The duration of the required report is 5 years.

5. The average letting agent will normaly accept any old bit of paper from one of their tame contractors written on the back of a bus ticket in crayon by a knuckle scraping half wit.


So what does the forum think, was the letting agent right to refuse an EIC and only accept an EICR?


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    Having received an unsatisfactory EICR the landlord has to ensure that when the remedial work is carried out the electrician provides either a Minor Work Certificate or an Electrical Installation Certificate, depending on what remedial work has been undertaken, these are then “appended” to the EICR.  


    Well, that’s the theory, but if you get the repairs done before issuing the EICR the report will state the installation is satisfactory.


    I installed a replacement consumer unit in one house, it wasn’t even worth spending the time doing the report before the fuse board was replaced as there were several C1- if you touch it you may die faults.


    In the end I sent an EIC for the new CU and a satisfactory EICR, which is probably OTT, but makes things run smoothly.


    Andy B.
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    Having received an unsatisfactory EICR the landlord has to ensure that when the remedial work is carried out the electrician provides either a Minor Work Certificate or an Electrical Installation Certificate, depending on what remedial work has been undertaken, these are then “appended” to the EICR.  


    Well, that’s the theory, but if you get the repairs done before issuing the EICR the report will state the installation is satisfactory.


    I installed a replacement consumer unit in one house, it wasn’t even worth spending the time doing the report before the fuse board was replaced as there were several C1- if you touch it you may die faults.


    In the end I sent an EIC for the new CU and a satisfactory EICR, which is probably OTT, but makes things run smoothly.


    Andy B.
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