New rules or regulations for social landlords?

To some people this sounds like a chicken and egg scenario.  Why leave the premises after doing an EICR if the outcome is not satisfactory?  For some organisations they will have a team or person who goes round doing the EICR and nothing else.  Their mandate is just to report back.  This then gives another team or 3rd party contractor  a list of required remedial work.  This may sometimes come about when an organisation realises that they need to have 100 EICR done in the next 3 months for example working on the proviso that an electrician can do 2 EICR a day.

Personally I think that if the property be it social of PRS (Private Rental Sector) can be left with a satisfactory EICR by the end of the visit then that would be advisable but this may mean that the engineer can only be scheduled for 1 EICR per day and would need to carry a fair amount of stock on the van.  Which is fine in a lot of towns and cities but starts to become cost prohibitive is places like central London where finding the parking can be time consuming and then the additional cost as apposed to a Electrician with a toolbox/Rucksack of kit.  

As a side note it is worth looking at how many EICR you currently have which have expired there original 5 year validity.  Other points of note are smoke detector expiry dates and a valid Legionnaires' disease cert.

From a long term maintenance perspective across a range of properties, I'd expect that the EICR should record ALL the defects and issues spotted, even if repaired immediately.

For a single instance it may feel reasonable to simply 'tick the box' to indicate that the installation is now in a good condition, but from the perspective of long term quality assurance it is important to be able to monitor the degradations and repair frequencies across the estate being managed.

If the EICR is for an estate of 1 unit then a repair/tick the box might be appropriate, but for multi-unit managed estates `they` should be monitoring failures so the EICR aught to note them. Tuppence spent. 

From a long term maintenance perspective across a range of properties, I'd expect that the EICR should record ALL the defects and issues spotted, even if repaired immediately.

For a single instance it may feel reasonable to simply 'tick the box' to indicate that the installation is now in a good condition, but from the perspective of long term quality assurance it is important to be able to monitor the degradations and repair frequencies across the estate being managed.

If the EICR is for an estate of 1 unit then a repair/tick the box might be appropriate, but for multi-unit managed estates `they` should be monitoring failures so the EICR aught to note them. Tuppence spent.