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is this a bad business practice for an electrical company?

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a little background here, our home is a newly refurbished home in 2017 and it passed all the electrical inspection when we buy the home. Recently we've got a new contractor to do an EICR for us. Then here are the issues, they came and did the inspection, after 2 weeks, they only sent us a second quote and didn’t give us any report nor mentioning any coding (c1,c2,c3) nor anything unsatisfactory. When I ask for the EICR report, they told me that the certificate will be given after completing the work on the second quote and which needs to be carried out within 28 days otherwise we could be fined a lot of money from the council…… THAT'S FRIGHTENING!


But from what I known, I don’t think the work on the list is mandatory and some of them not even electrical related (see the attached invoice)… At this point, I don’t know what was going wrong as it does not mention anything that is unsatisfactory and I certainly not sure the total £672 is correct.


Discussion:

- Is this a bad business practice? 

- Are the work listed are mandatory before giving the EICR?

- What should I do next? 

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    This legislation ( Electrical Safety Standards in the Private Rented Sector (England) Regulations 2020) is quite new, and it seems the cowboys are saddling up to ride into town, take the money and ride off into the sunset. It is not helped by some very odd contractor and letting agency 'sole agent' type agreements that are not really to the benefit of the agency's clients at all.

    As well as demanding your  report, in full, for which you have already paid, if you are not happy with the result, the other person to contact is perhaps your MP

    It is becoming clear  the law  will eventually need some clarification and probably modification, and the more quickly that gets flagged up as not quite working as intended, the better.

    (- we have already seen a number of cases on here that suggest the legislation is not working as intended (though sadly exactly as some of us feared it might.).

    The rules as they are today are  here 


    The threat of fines from the council is something of a red herring. The council are not out to get you just for the heck of it, and if you can show that you have made reasonable efforts to get the report out of the sparks in a timely way then it will not be you they would pursue, or indeed anyone at all at the moment - they are probably not even aware that the property has been inspected.

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    Mike.

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    This legislation ( Electrical Safety Standards in the Private Rented Sector (England) Regulations 2020) is quite new, and it seems the cowboys are saddling up to ride into town, take the money and ride off into the sunset. It is not helped by some very odd contractor and letting agency 'sole agent' type agreements that are not really to the benefit of the agency's clients at all.

    As well as demanding your  report, in full, for which you have already paid, if you are not happy with the result, the other person to contact is perhaps your MP

    It is becoming clear  the law  will eventually need some clarification and probably modification, and the more quickly that gets flagged up as not quite working as intended, the better.

    (- we have already seen a number of cases on here that suggest the legislation is not working as intended (though sadly exactly as some of us feared it might.).

    The rules as they are today are  here 


    The threat of fines from the council is something of a red herring. The council are not out to get you just for the heck of it, and if you can show that you have made reasonable efforts to get the report out of the sparks in a timely way then it will not be you they would pursue, or indeed anyone at all at the moment - they are probably not even aware that the property has been inspected.

    .

    Mike.

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