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?
.. Anything on the EICR itself which is not a positive "satisfactory" means that the property cannot be legally let ...
Not quite true, although managing agents would want you to believe it is so. The legislation is quite clear about what to do with an "unsatisfactory" EICR, it needs sending to the local authority (amongst others) with a "written confirmation" that the remedials have been done and the installation complies with the safety standards. Just a thought, would you need professional indemnity insurance to write such a statement?
I have asked my local authority which department it should be sent to, how many they have had and whether they are happy that managing agents insist on "satisfactory" EICRs, thus depriving them of potential information on installations which could be substandard. Have had no reply for over a month, the legislation is not even referenced on their website (Lambeth), but excuseable I suppose for a cash-strapped council. If they aren't even ready for action, they are the enforcers of the legislation after all, why bother?
.. Anything on the EICR itself which is not a positive "satisfactory" means that the property cannot be legally let ...
Not quite true, although managing agents would want you to believe it is so. The legislation is quite clear about what to do with an "unsatisfactory" EICR, it needs sending to the local authority (amongst others) with a "written confirmation" that the remedials have been done and the installation complies with the safety standards. Just a thought, would you need professional indemnity insurance to write such a statement?
I have asked my local authority which department it should be sent to, how many they have had and whether they are happy that managing agents insist on "satisfactory" EICRs, thus depriving them of potential information on installations which could be substandard. Have had no reply for over a month, the legislation is not even referenced on their website (Lambeth), but excuseable I suppose for a cash-strapped council. If they aren't even ready for action, they are the enforcers of the legislation after all, why bother?
