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?
Before launching the landlords safety inspections the government should have considered what the outcome should be.
The government should have produced a compliance guide with legally enforceable minimum standards for installations, there should be a registration scheme for inspectors with a specific qualification requirement and a completely new standard report form.
But nobody wanted that, landlords and others sell argued against setting those requirements.
Landlords EICRs should be done by the book, such as NAPIT Codebreakers with a little leeway on coding that inspectors would have to justify.
Last year I graded a flat as “satisfactory” before doing so I sought guidance, my advisor said he knew I wanted to grade it as unsatisfactory, but I could not justify doing so. It is a forty year old installation with an electric shower, there is not any RCD protection at all for anything, my advisor said that although it felt completely wrong and immoral to say it is still satisfactory, as it has not been altered in forty years I could only write a long list of non-compliances with the current regulations and code all of them C3.
However if there is an incident in that flat the landlord has been told the installation would be a lot safer with RCD protection for all circuits, so it’s not actually my problem.
People also need to realise that if I do an EICR and say the installation is unsatisfactory it’s not actually my problem and just because I have told them there’s problems I am not under any obligation to do the remedial work.
Before launching the landlords safety inspections the government should have considered what the outcome should be.
The government should have produced a compliance guide with legally enforceable minimum standards for installations, there should be a registration scheme for inspectors with a specific qualification requirement and a completely new standard report form.
But nobody wanted that, landlords and others sell argued against setting those requirements.
Landlords EICRs should be done by the book, such as NAPIT Codebreakers with a little leeway on coding that inspectors would have to justify.
Last year I graded a flat as “satisfactory” before doing so I sought guidance, my advisor said he knew I wanted to grade it as unsatisfactory, but I could not justify doing so. It is a forty year old installation with an electric shower, there is not any RCD protection at all for anything, my advisor said that although it felt completely wrong and immoral to say it is still satisfactory, as it has not been altered in forty years I could only write a long list of non-compliances with the current regulations and code all of them C3.
However if there is an incident in that flat the landlord has been told the installation would be a lot safer with RCD protection for all circuits, so it’s not actually my problem.
People also need to realise that if I do an EICR and say the installation is unsatisfactory it’s not actually my problem and just because I have told them there’s problems I am not under any obligation to do the remedial work.
