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EICR Codes help for new Landlord.

Former Community Member
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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
  • The picture looks fine, but what is on it does not.


    I use NAPIT Desktop for EICRs.


    When you work through the schedule of inspections as you code items it brings up a dialogue box containing a description of the issue and references to regulations which if you accept is added to the observations sheet, then you can edit the observation sheet to make it specific to the installation you are testing and inspecting.


    So when reading the observations on that sheet you have shown in the photograph I can see that there is not a reference number telling you which item on the schedule of inspections the observation is describing or     which Wiring Regulation is applicable.


    Some of the observations look highly dubious, can you add photos of the schedule of inspections so we can see if we can spot what has been observed by comparing the schedule with the observation.


    Andy B.
  • Item 10 is the only observation correctly referenced, have a look at it and you will see what I mean.


    That observation suggests there may be one or more electrical fittings that need replacing.


    Andy B.
  • The electrical installation almost certainly needs upgrading, what, if anything is salvageable is possibly open to discussion.


    Andy B.
  • Mutley:

    .... 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.


    Looks like you have been codebreakered.  It may be more cost effective to have another EICR.


    It takes far less knowledge and experience to Report and  arbitrarily condemn everything, than to accurately Report on the condition of an installation. The former will be cheap, short term gain long term pain, the latter, a fair cost to do it properly and honestly and if remedial action required, the most likely method is not a whole new install.


  • Looks like the usual nonsense from a person not competent to carry out a periodic inspection and test.
  • I left that bit out John, from the point of view of general harmony! I would like answers to my questions though.
  • Former Community Member
    0 Former Community Member
    Hi all. Thanks for your replies and advice.


    I can see on the schedule there is a long number on top right, will this reveal who the engineer is at all? I don't want to reveal any ones name.


    Thanks
  • if in doubt put your thumb over it before scanning in.... it may be a scheme membership no.
  • It contains the NAPIT membership number as part of the serial number, so could possibly be used to identify the person who issued the number.


    When you photograph the schedule on a phone you can scribble it out by clicking the pen on the edit menu and using your finger as the pen.
  • Alcomax:
     


    Looks like you have been codebreakered.  It may be more cost effective to have another EICR.


     






    The codes aren’t referenced to anything and the whole point of the NAPIT Codebreakers is to do exactly that.