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EICR Codes help for new Landlord.

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Hi. I hope you are all well and keeping busy in these strange times. I look after a ladies house who has had to move back abroad and now needs to let the property out and so she has had an EICR done which has come back with saying it needs a total rewire for few grand. 


What I want to know is can I ask info on here about the codes he has put and if reasonable.


I don't won't to upset anyone by second guessing another trades persons work but I would like an idea if this is right or not?


Thanks you


Regards Lee
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    Mutley:

    To be honest, you were all much more obliging than I could have expected so again thank you.


    Thanks are really due to the IET, which provides this forum. Always good to hear of a favourable outcome.


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    We always like a compromise ?
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    Hi all.


    Just want to let you know that another electeician is working on this job and is going to re wire the light circuit and put a new consumer unit and sleeve the earths in the sockets.


    Thanks again for all the advice.


    To be honest, you were all much more obliging than I could have expected so again thank you.


    Lee


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    Hi all. Again many thanks for the advice.


    She does have a tenant in there who is through an agency which are really pushing the landlady now with the penalty. 


    I have managed to get hold of an electrician who has been recommended by a few people who is going to give the install a once over and advise from there.


    Thank you again for answering my thread. 


    Regards Lee
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    UKPN:

    Have you remedied those observations yet Mutley? Time is running short, you have 28 days to complete them , and the tenant and local authority must have a copy with themselves within 28 days of completion. 


    Of course if the observations are bogus, thats going to be difficult. Getting someone else in this industry who has a clue seems a little difficult these days. 


    You cant even call the DNO on this one!


    Regards, UKPN

     


    If it hasn't been let out yet, it doesn't really matter.  So long as the problems have been fixed before the first tenant moves in, it will have the right paperwork.


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    "You cant even call the DNO on this one!


    Regards, UKPN"


    Is that because todays DNOs, unlike the old area boards, do not know their amp from their elbow so far as our "Wiring Regs" are concerned these days UKPN?
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    Have you remedied those observations yet Mutley? Time is running short, you have 28 days to complete them , and the tenant and local authority must have a copy with themselves within 28 days of completion. 


    Of course if the observations are bogus, thats going to be difficult. Getting someone else in this industry who has a clue seems a little difficult these days. 


    You cant even call the DNO on this one!


    Regards, UKPN

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    "No specific qualification is required, but the appropriate one is City & Guilds 2391 - it used to be 2395".

    started as 2391 then as a level2 introduction 2392 then split the level 3 qualification 2394 and 2395 now has gone back to 2391. Soon to introduce DC motor maintenance and core winding craft courses, no doubt

    "In theory, the CPS guarantee a minimum standard, but I think that it is like finding any good tradesman - word of mouth. As an example, my wife noticed some good painting and decorating just down the road so we got the decorator to do some work for us. When we needed a builder we asked him for a recommendation, and so on."

    Most of the trades working in this neck of the woods are usually on personal recommendation.
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    Mutley:

    The landlady is willing to pay whatever it costs but I just wanted a second opinion basically. 


    Can anyone tell me where there is a good place to find another electrician to do another EICR. like a trade association?


    There are two registered competent person schemes in England: Napit and NICEIC and you can find their members here. The registration allows electricians to self-certify notifiable work under Part P of the building regulations. It is not necessary to be a member to do EICRs. No specific qualification is required, but the appropriate one is City & Guilds 2391 - it used to be 2395.


    In theory, the CPS guarantee a minimum standard, but I think that it is like finding any good tradesman - word of mouth. As an example, my wife noticed some good painting and decorating just down the road so we got the decorator to do some work for us. When we needed a builder we asked him for a recommendation, and so on.


    HTH.


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    Victor Serebriakoff or somebody I think who was hon life pres of MENSA made a statement about "how long is a piece of string" and noted that for most things approximations are useful enough.

    Therefore I always declare my age on Xmas day.

    So I pass mid 60s on that day. Therefore mapj1 I`m about a decade older than you. You are a young un, not an old timer


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