I agree with all of that, and I’ll caveat the entire thing by saying I’m basically playing devils advocate because I’m stuck in isolation thanks to this wonderful pandemic.
Ultimately I see no reason the electrician wouldn’t issue an EICR as well as an EIC if requested to. I guess I’m just arguing at the stupidity of the following situation which is what the rules are effectively mandating
EICR carried out, unsatisfactory with all issues able to be resolved by board change.
Board change carried out, EIC issued which
has to inspect and test every point to meet the requirements of GN3/BS7671.
EICR has to also be issued to confirm the EIC for the board change has resolved the original unsatisfactory EICR.
Having nothing better to do I’ve sat and compared the schedules of inspection for the EIC and EICR from GN3. They’re laid out differently, and the EICR drills down a lot more to individual levels, but the gist of the content for both of them is the same in a shorter format on the EIC.
Instead of drilling down 8 separate items for inspection in a Location containing a bath or shower, the EIC has a catch all single sentence.
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