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WAR IN UKRAINE NEW CONSUMER UNIT REQUIRED

John Peckham

A friend of the family and their next door neighbor are hosting Ukrainian families under the government scheme.

One of the government conditions is to have a satisfactory EICR along with other conditions like window stays for upstairs windows as the families have children. Both houses have failed an I&T as they need 2 new consumers units., I of course am suspicious. They are being fitted today.

For my part If any one is going to house Ukrainians under the government scheme, in Essex, I would do a free EICR as my small contribution. Perhaps others might want to join me in offering this service for free?

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    It should be an embarrassment for the government if they fail to find enough accommodation for refugees because the UK housing stock is deemed substandard and unfit for purpose by the government themselves, but if it happens we won’t hear about it.

    I respect anyone who will do genuinely do unbiased EICRs free of charge for potential hosts, but I suspect there will be many genuine failures.

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    Deleted out of respect of the main object of this thread!

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  • 0 in reply to gkenyon

    The only failure of govt is to imagine that legislation alone can drive up standards of workmanship or eliminate the 'run it till it breaks' mentality in relation to national infrastructure.  What is really needed is better education and access to the information to make informed choices.  And of course if there are too many failures to meet the standard, but there is no pile of bodies or hundreds of smouldering ruins  of houses each morning, then maybe that says the bar is set unrealistically high, and we are trying to live at a standard we cannot really reach nor afford.

    Remember that in recession the value of life falls, much as it rises as living standards improve, so really one could argue that we should be making things more dangerous, not less, in response to the current economic squeeze.

    I am of course slightly tongue in cheek..

    Mike.

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