The EICR and competence. What are we going to do about the endless problems brought to the forum?

I like Andy's idea, as a tiny start to making things a bit better. In fact, I have been discussing a video version with several people recently. However, that will be nothing like enough. Lyle above has hit the nail on the head, the Inspection job is vastly more complex than installation, particularly domestic, and is much more like a reverse engineering design job. Few of the Engineers I know like doing reverse engineering, it is full of pitfalls and snags which make it difficult and risky. The biggest problem is that many installations were unsatisfactory the day they were installed, and had latent faults and errors present. The regulations then change, often in fairly subtle ways, and new devices get added AFDDs Surge "protection", etc. and compliance becomes difficult or impossible to certify. Many think 3rd party testing is difficult and don't want to do it, well realistically an EICR of similar installations is much harder.

I like Andy's idea, as a tiny start to making things a bit better. In fact, I have been discussing a video version with several people recently. However, that will be nothing like enough. Lyle above has hit the nail on the head, the Inspection job is vastly more complex than installation, particularly domestic, and is much more like a reverse engineering design job. Few of the Engineers I know like doing reverse engineering, it is full of pitfalls and snags which make it difficult and risky. The biggest problem is that many installations were unsatisfactory the day they were installed, and had latent faults and errors present. The regulations then change, often in fairly subtle ways, and new devices get added AFDDs Surge "protection", etc. and compliance becomes difficult or impossible to certify. Many think 3rd party testing is difficult and don't want to do it, well realistically an EICR of similar installations is much harder.