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 agree Gideon. I am not objecting to Andy or Z poking the button and informing the Landlord, simply that this should not be on the EICR as loads of other hassles will certainly follow. Anything on the EICR itself which is not a positive "satisfactory" means that the property cannot be legally let, and if you start adding outside scope stuff, it confuses everyone completely. Maybe they should all know better, but agents, landlords, or tenants in my experience do not! If you note this problem, do you then write satisfactory, or tick that box? If you do you are not following your own principle, if you say "unsatisfactory" that is not strictly true, and you would find a code difficult, perhaps FI. I hope you see that a letter is the only way because anything else could be expensive to you, or the Landlord, who may attempt to recover the cost of not being able to rent from you. It is best to stick to the exact scope of a statutory inspection, which this has become.
I agree Gideon. I am not objecting to Andy or Z poking the button and informing the Landlord, simply that this should not be on the EICR as loads of other hassles will certainly follow. Anything on the EICR itself which is not a positive "satisfactory" means that the property cannot be legally let, and if you start adding outside scope stuff, it confuses everyone completely. Maybe they should all know better, but agents, landlords, or tenants in my experience do not! If you note this problem, do you then write satisfactory, or tick that box? If you do you are not following your own principle, if you say "unsatisfactory" that is not strictly true, and you would find a code difficult, perhaps FI. I hope you see that a letter is the only way because anything else could be expensive to you, or the Landlord, who may attempt to recover the cost of not being able to rent from you. It is best to stick to the exact scope of a statutory inspection, which this has become.
