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PAT by X-Ray connection?

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My wife owns a house which is let out through a Letting Agent. As such they manage the property and my wife gets the bills.

A few days ago the Letting Agent's contractor carried out a PAT. This for the Fridge, Freezer, Dishwasher and an Electric Fire - these all part of the property.

However her tenant manages a company where they have PATs carried out every day and thus familiar with the process. She spotted that all they did was to ask if any problems and write out the four labels!

He did have a tester with him, from the emailed test sheet a Seaward Apollo 400. But none of the appliances were plugged into the tester - the mains plugs having their respective sockets in cupboards.

So must have been an X-Ray connection……..?

Clive

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    Suppose someone offered car MOTs where you gave them £10 and the registration number of your vehicle, and they posted you back a "passed" certificate.  How many people would go for that, rather than actually taking their car to an MOT station to be tested?


    Well far too many years ago, when I lived in Essex, there was a garage on the A12 on the way into Romford that more or less did that not far from the Gallow's corner roundabout.  £20 if I recall, but the same idea. This was very well known, and had a thriving  trade with those of us with older vehicles and no particular trust in the authority of the state. Think poll tax protests and the amazing shrinking voters register, that sort of era. 

    And "Bangernomics" is a funny discipline - put it in for an MOT every six months and sell on after the 1st fail, with 6 months still to go.... I have mellowed in my politics a bit since then and when I last looked a good few years ago, that garage  had become a bathroom sales place, I presume at some point the long arm of the law (and maybe computer aided record checks) had finally caught up with it.

    Do not underestimate the value of a service that defeats a law seen as unnecessary. PAT may well be in similar category of not really worth it.

    Mike.
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    Suppose someone offered car MOTs where you gave them £10 and the registration number of your vehicle, and they posted you back a "passed" certificate.  How many people would go for that, rather than actually taking their car to an MOT station to be tested?


    Well far too many years ago, when I lived in Essex, there was a garage on the A12 on the way into Romford that more or less did that not far from the Gallow's corner roundabout.  £20 if I recall, but the same idea. This was very well known, and had a thriving  trade with those of us with older vehicles and no particular trust in the authority of the state. Think poll tax protests and the amazing shrinking voters register, that sort of era. 

    And "Bangernomics" is a funny discipline - put it in for an MOT every six months and sell on after the 1st fail, with 6 months still to go.... I have mellowed in my politics a bit since then and when I last looked a good few years ago, that garage  had become a bathroom sales place, I presume at some point the long arm of the law (and maybe computer aided record checks) had finally caught up with it.

    Do not underestimate the value of a service that defeats a law seen as unnecessary. PAT may well be in similar category of not really worth it.

    Mike.
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