Electrician fined for EICR.

Chris Pearson: 
 

Splendid, absolutely splendid!

(Though I doubt that the fail, put in a new CU, poor quality EICRs will be caught - they are potentially a worse offense contrary to S.2 of the Fraud Act 2006.)

I read it as it says one of the reasons why he was in court may have been because he didn’t say it needs a new consumer unit.

To quote the report I linked to “He told the vendor a light fitting in the downstairs utility and shower room needed to be replaced but his report did not list any concerns despite estimating the electrics to be 40 years old.”.

I think we can now knock the idea that if it was okay forty years ago and has been left untouched it will probably be okay now, despite numerous updates to the Wiring Regulations, on the head.

That should presumably be taken as a legal precedent that forty year old installations are unlikely to be classed as satisfactory on an EICR?

Andy B.

Chris Pearson: 
 

Splendid, absolutely splendid!

(Though I doubt that the fail, put in a new CU, poor quality EICRs will be caught - they are potentially a worse offense contrary to S.2 of the Fraud Act 2006.)

I read it as it says one of the reasons why he was in court may have been because he didn’t say it needs a new consumer unit.

To quote the report I linked to “He told the vendor a light fitting in the downstairs utility and shower room needed to be replaced but his report did not list any concerns despite estimating the electrics to be 40 years old.”.

I think we can now knock the idea that if it was okay forty years ago and has been left untouched it will probably be okay now, despite numerous updates to the Wiring Regulations, on the head.

That should presumably be taken as a legal precedent that forty year old installations are unlikely to be classed as satisfactory on an EICR?

Andy B.