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Failed EICR

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Hi just want to know what you guys and girls do in the following situation. 

You've carried out an EICR its failed. 

Once the remedials have been carried out do you redo the original EICR so it's Satisfactory?

Or do you fill out minor works certs and give these to the customer along with the original failed report so once cross referenced  it results in being satisfactory. 

This has been bugging me for awhile now. 

Regards TS

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    Sparkingchip: 
     

    Question 1.

    A potential customer asks for a quote to replace a consumer unit after you did an EICR for them, do you just copy the test results off the original EICR?

    Question 2.

    The same, but someone else did the EICR, do you copy their test results onto your EIC for the new consumer uni?

     

    I don't think either is appropriate and copying past results which represent the findings on the day they were carried out should never be done.  That's why I wondered for other works whether an EIC or EICR might be okay with the limitations clearly stating the circuit that was changed.  In the case of changing a consumer unit which you reference is there not a case for retesting all of the circuits anyway ?  You will have disconnected all final circuits and reconnected them to the new consumer unit so values might have changed.  The need for re-testing them for safety is something that should be emphasised to the client when quoting.

    Paul 

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    Sparkingchip: 
     

    Question 1.

    A potential customer asks for a quote to replace a consumer unit after you did an EICR for them, do you just copy the test results off the original EICR?

    Question 2.

    The same, but someone else did the EICR, do you copy their test results onto your EIC for the new consumer uni?

     

    I don't think either is appropriate and copying past results which represent the findings on the day they were carried out should never be done.  That's why I wondered for other works whether an EIC or EICR might be okay with the limitations clearly stating the circuit that was changed.  In the case of changing a consumer unit which you reference is there not a case for retesting all of the circuits anyway ?  You will have disconnected all final circuits and reconnected them to the new consumer unit so values might have changed.  The need for re-testing them for safety is something that should be emphasised to the client when quoting.

    Paul 

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