Exposed: Cash for logos and drive by inspections

I know full well that back in the 80's and 90's electricians who were wiring a terrace of houses would fully test one then use the test results for the whole block, but there were not any RCDs to test and generally someone did an insulation test at the tails before actually turning the supply on then a couple of random loop tests.

Those electricians would be gobsmacked at the amount of testing we are ending up doing these days with homes having far more circuits and RCBOs on all of them.

Life has moved on people cannot keep reporting stories that have been told for twenty years or more, I said to a customer I installed a couple of consumer units for a few weeks ago that they bore little resemblance to the first consumer unit I installed after I qualified over twenty years ago, having RCD protection and SPDs along with steel enclosures, the amount of testing I am doing now is far in excess of what I used to do with my first tester, my Robin KTS1620.

There will always be a bit of bending of the rules, there will always be some outright sharks and charlatans, but with the PRS EICRs no one has actually laid down the rules and there's nobody policing it.

I know full well that back in the 80's and 90's electricians who were wiring a terrace of houses would fully test one then use the test results for the whole block, but there were not any RCDs to test and generally someone did an insulation test at the tails before actually turning the supply on then a couple of random loop tests.

Those electricians would be gobsmacked at the amount of testing we are ending up doing these days with homes having far more circuits and RCBOs on all of them.

Life has moved on people cannot keep reporting stories that have been told for twenty years or more, I said to a customer I installed a couple of consumer units for a few weeks ago that they bore little resemblance to the first consumer unit I installed after I qualified over twenty years ago, having RCD protection and SPDs along with steel enclosures, the amount of testing I am doing now is far in excess of what I used to do with my first tester, my Robin KTS1620.

There will always be a bit of bending of the rules, there will always be some outright sharks and charlatans, but with the PRS EICRs no one has actually laid down the rules and there's nobody policing it.