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£30k fine for landlords who do not provide a valid EICR for their rental properties

Legh Richardson
Is this actually true or is it some estate agent cashing in on lost income?

The reason why I ask, what appears to be a daft question, is that a friend has just received notification from the estate agent who sold the property 15 years ago that their property, which is now being rented, must be inspected and tested for compliance to 18th ed. Not that I was unaware of this requirement!

I just thought the £30k punishment for disobedience was a little steep. Or maybe  'bribery and corruption' or  'threatening behaviour' was the new Inspection and testing idiom.?

Legh
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    You do what you are getting paid for, if there’s a cable going out and you don’t know where it goes and what, if anything, it does you need to disconnect it or the installation is unsatisfactory. It could be a bare ended cable in the loft or under the floor that could kill a plumber or someone else, as has happened locally.


    Agreeing to do an EICR is not an open ended agreement to sort out all the issues you find, you report the issues and then they need to be dealt with as a chargeable extra or another contractor needs to come in and sort it out, including the issue of not knowing what the problem is, if there in one.


    So you report an issue such as a break in a ring circuit or failed insulation, but you do not do the fault finding and rectify the issue.
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    You do what you are getting paid for, if there’s a cable going out and you don’t know where it goes and what, if anything, it does you need to disconnect it or the installation is unsatisfactory. It could be a bare ended cable in the loft or under the floor that could kill a plumber or someone else, as has happened locally.


    Agreeing to do an EICR is not an open ended agreement to sort out all the issues you find, you report the issues and then they need to be dealt with as a chargeable extra or another contractor needs to come in and sort it out, including the issue of not knowing what the problem is, if there in one.


    So you report an issue such as a break in a ring circuit or failed insulation, but you do not do the fault finding and rectify the issue.
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