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

I don't know how you fix it, but every business manager I know rolls their eyes when inspection time comes around. They know that whoever their national head office choose to use, usually a large testing specific company, it will fail and cost them money. Even if it passed fine 5 years ago and nothing has changed. EICR's are used by too many companies for job creation. Another problem is that its all subjective. The regs are black and white to a point, but very vague in others. Then you bring in the grey area of "up to the standards that it was installed to" and its even more grey. MOT's are subjective too. Like your brake pipes Dave, its an observation. Certain things are set in stone, anything with a numerical value, but much like the EICR, the rest is subjective and open to the individuals interpretation. Only way I can see it being stopped is if the people doing the EICR's aren't allowed to do the remedials. Then that cuts out the job creation motive

I don't know how you fix it, but every business manager I know rolls their eyes when inspection time comes around. They know that whoever their national head office choose to use, usually a large testing specific company, it will fail and cost them money. Even if it passed fine 5 years ago and nothing has changed. EICR's are used by too many companies for job creation. Another problem is that its all subjective. The regs are black and white to a point, but very vague in others. Then you bring in the grey area of "up to the standards that it was installed to" and its even more grey. MOT's are subjective too. Like your brake pipes Dave, its an observation. Certain things are set in stone, anything with a numerical value, but much like the EICR, the rest is subjective and open to the individuals interpretation. Only way I can see it being stopped is if the people doing the EICR's aren't allowed to do the remedials. Then that cuts out the job creation motive