Videos of EICRs on Youtube

Now! Now! Mike, we can't have the emperor's new clothes being exposed like that, hundreds of ‘inspectors’ would be out of work overnight and home/business insurance premiums would crash!

That's the trouble with things like this, what begins as a good common sense idea grows and veers towards  becoming a meaningless and very expensive empire - just look at nonsense such as the ‘Mindfulness’ industry, not to mention Elf & Savdy. Who knew 30-odd years ago that we would end up having to buy and wear so much PPE that we would become too encumbered to carry out our work safely?

Seriously though, I reckon that there is a valid reason or two to leave stuff well alone for longer periods. The number of faults I have been called out to post-'inspection' where something like a cable has snapped out of the back of a light switch, or a socket outlet begins to trip because someone has ‘oversampled’ his visuals on a sockets circuit and a fixing screw has pinched a live conductor. Then we get wandering cpcs inside consumer units after they have been disconnected/reconnected but improperly.

Now! Now! Mike, we can't have the emperor's new clothes being exposed like that, hundreds of ‘inspectors’ would be out of work overnight and home/business insurance premiums would crash!

That's the trouble with things like this, what begins as a good common sense idea grows and veers towards  becoming a meaningless and very expensive empire - just look at nonsense such as the ‘Mindfulness’ industry, not to mention Elf & Savdy. Who knew 30-odd years ago that we would end up having to buy and wear so much PPE that we would become too encumbered to carry out our work safely?

Seriously though, I reckon that there is a valid reason or two to leave stuff well alone for longer periods. The number of faults I have been called out to post-'inspection' where something like a cable has snapped out of the back of a light switch, or a socket outlet begins to trip because someone has ‘oversampled’ his visuals on a sockets circuit and a fixing screw has pinched a live conductor. Then we get wandering cpcs inside consumer units after they have been disconnected/reconnected but improperly.