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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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    Is low standards of Housing a failure of Government is a political discussion, on this forum it’s far more appropriate to discuss what standards should be applied to electrical installations in homes with owner-occupiers, particularly when hosting refugees and if the general standards for HMOs and privately rented homes should be applied.

    It should be noted though that the housing standards established in 1963 were removed in 1980, as noted in Wikipedia:

    The mandatory nature of the Parker Morris standards was ended by the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980, when the incoming Conservative government sought to reduce the cost of housing and, generally, public spending.

    en.m.wikipedia.org/.../Parker_Morris_Committee

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    Is low standards of Housing a failure of Government is a political discussion, on this forum it’s far more appropriate to discuss what standards should be applied to electrical installations in homes with owner-occupiers, particularly when hosting refugees and if the general standards for HMOs and privately rented homes should be applied.

    It should be noted though that the housing standards established in 1963 were removed in 1980, as noted in Wikipedia:

    The mandatory nature of the Parker Morris standards was ended by the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980, when the incoming Conservative government sought to reduce the cost of housing and, generally, public spending.

    en.m.wikipedia.org/.../Parker_Morris_Committee

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  • 0 in reply to Sparkingchip

    For context, has anyone here witnessed the average state of Ukrainian domestic wiring? Forget the live munitions for a moment and focus upon which might be safer, a non-compliant Uk installation - which is most of them if we are to believe the plethora of opinions from EICR 'inspectors' - or is the installation they have left behind safer (if still intact)?

  • 0 in reply to Sparkingchip

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

  • 0 in reply to gkenyon

    If that is the case, them all HMOs for example will be non-compliant because of the lack of those panacea AFDDs - should we be worried?

  • 0 in reply to gkenyon

    I do not see why it cannot be debated !  The issue under disussion here is not to meet every dot and comma some BS or other, it is to ensure wiring is safe for  use by visitors to a family home, and there are many ways of achieving that that, after all far more counties do not follow our wiring regs than do so, and this is first and foremost a wiring forum, not a 'praise BS7671' forum after all.

    By all means use it to test against, as a convenient English  language text, but do not expect all failures to make the home un-inhabitable.

    Mike

  • 0 in reply to mapj1

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

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