Your answers Gentlemen, please. This is indicating a serious problem in the Industry. Trust is now zero. I am disgusted with the behavior of these alleged "inspectors" who are dim, dumb, deaf and blind, and cannot read the BBB. It is not good enough is it?
Should a forty year old with a Wylex fuse board with rewirable fuses as circuit protection and a complete lack of RCD protection be deemed acceptable in a rented home in 2021, because no one has upgraded the installation in the last forty years, so it is the same now as when it was installed?
Not acceptable any more IN MY VIEW for a rented property, Apart from other considerations, it is a lot older than my proposed 20 year limit on "grandfathering" existing and once compliant installs.
However a home rewired in 2002 and in compliance with the then applicable regulations should in my view still be acceptable, but would require bringing up to the latest standards by 2022.
I wonder how many rented properties that have just been upgraded to the latest standards, will be again ruled unsatisfactory in 2026, due to lack of arc fault protection, and then found unsatisfactory YET AGAIN in 2031 for want of something not yet invented.
Should a forty year old with a Wylex fuse board with rewirable fuses as circuit protection and a complete lack of RCD protection be deemed acceptable in a rented home in 2021, because no one has upgraded the installation in the last forty years, so it is the same now as when it was installed?
Not acceptable any more IN MY VIEW for a rented property, Apart from other considerations, it is a lot older than my proposed 20 year limit on "grandfathering" existing and once compliant installs.
However a home rewired in 2002 and in compliance with the then applicable regulations should in my view still be acceptable, but would require bringing up to the latest standards by 2022.
I wonder how many rented properties that have just been upgraded to the latest standards, will be again ruled unsatisfactory in 2026, due to lack of arc fault protection, and then found unsatisfactory YET AGAIN in 2031 for want of something not yet invented.
