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?
I think that the controllimg bodies are much to blame for the standards of EICR's; instead of a contractor being able to offer 2 jobs for assessment, all their work jobs should be made eligible for assessment; the controlling body should then be responsible for arranging the visits for the assessment ..... directly with the customers; this arrangement would obviously have be made in unison, otherwise it would lead to froghopping between schemes. More work for the clerical administration of the controlling bodies, but a much more effective means of a contractor's assessment and should also lead to an improvement in the contractor's self discipline for all work..Further, why are the rates in MyBuilder.com so low for EICR's? .
Those of us conscientious types at the coal face, see the examples of unprofessionalism. When I discussed the problems with my assessor of the bad performance by builder's "electricians" and those carrying out EICR's, there wasn't the reaction I would have expected. As an example, I was requested to give an EICR on a property after a builder had built a new outbuilding for living accommodation, (to comply with Part P), this involved a new 8 way CU located in the kitchen of the original house to the new outbuilding. The incoming supply to the house was a TT supply with a VOELCB and an earth rod which obviously hadn't been recently tested, the original CU had a plastic body and was under the stairs with other add ons. I walked away ...... no doubt Another wuld have coined it..
I think also that Builders should be made much more responsible for work to Part P.
I think that the controllimg bodies are much to blame for the standards of EICR's; instead of a contractor being able to offer 2 jobs for assessment, all their work jobs should be made eligible for assessment; the controlling body should then be responsible for arranging the visits for the assessment ..... directly with the customers; this arrangement would obviously have be made in unison, otherwise it would lead to froghopping between schemes. More work for the clerical administration of the controlling bodies, but a much more effective means of a contractor's assessment and should also lead to an improvement in the contractor's self discipline for all work..Further, why are the rates in MyBuilder.com so low for EICR's? .
Those of us conscientious types at the coal face, see the examples of unprofessionalism. When I discussed the problems with my assessor of the bad performance by builder's "electricians" and those carrying out EICR's, there wasn't the reaction I would have expected. As an example, I was requested to give an EICR on a property after a builder had built a new outbuilding for living accommodation, (to comply with Part P), this involved a new 8 way CU located in the kitchen of the original house to the new outbuilding. The incoming supply to the house was a TT supply with a VOELCB and an earth rod which obviously hadn't been recently tested, the original CU had a plastic body and was under the stairs with other add ons. I walked away ...... no doubt Another wuld have coined it..
I think also that Builders should be made much more responsible for work to Part P.
