The purpose of this thread is two-fold:
The supplied satisfactory EICR can be viewed HERE. The identifying information has been removed and pages 4,5,6 omitted as the inspection schedule was "N/A" for every item. When looking at the EICR it's worth noting:
A week after moving in, my uncle mentions an issue with the oven where it tripped the RCD as soon as it was switched on. The oven was brand new, presumably installed just before he was given keys. It was only after seeing this nuisance tripping that I decided to look at the EICR and come to notice how laughable it was. I notify the letting agents of the oven issue and also politely ask them to have the electrician take a second look at the EICR mentioning the incomplete test results and the lack of a gas bond - I mentioned the gas bond deliberately so they might infer I happen to have a slightly better knowledge of BS7671 than the average layman.
A few days later, the same electrician visited the property. Rather than test the installation for earth leakage he did the next best thing... removed the RCD completely and put a mains switch in its place (the board now has zero RCD protection). For some unknown reason, he also decided to remove the spare MCBs and instead of using blanking covers he put two strips of insulating tape over the gaps. Picture HERE. While my uncle was happy he could now use the oven I had to explain to him carefully how the fault has only been hidden and the installation is now a lot more dangerous.
Last correspondence from the letting agent: "Just closing this [ticket] down as the electrician has said he spoke to your uncle on site. All resolved and the certificate is correct."
So my second question to the qualified sparks here is, again for the benefit of our letting agent; how would you rate the competency and workmanship of an electrician who knowingly removes the RCD from an installation and in the process decimates the IP rating of a consumer unit? Particularly one that's only a foot off the ground and well within reach of children.
- to let you folks see an EICR from someone who's too lazy (or busy) to even bother forging his test results.
- to forward this thread to our letting agents after it receives some replies; hopefully, after they've read the opinions of some qualified sparks they'll have a better understanding of how good their preferred "electrician" is...
The supplied satisfactory EICR can be viewed HERE. The identifying information has been removed and pages 4,5,6 omitted as the inspection schedule was "N/A" for every item. When looking at the EICR it's worth noting:
- the list of circuits is wrong both in number and description
- despite "electric shower" being listed as one of the circuits, the shower in the property works off the combi boiler
- the property has gas; the incoming pipework is metal and there is no gas bond in the meter cupboard
- not a single observation or limitation was noted down
- I have not edited the test results in any way; the only two columns he populated was IR and polarity, no apparent tests performed for Ze, Zs, PFC, CPC continuity, RCD trip time, etc.
A week after moving in, my uncle mentions an issue with the oven where it tripped the RCD as soon as it was switched on. The oven was brand new, presumably installed just before he was given keys. It was only after seeing this nuisance tripping that I decided to look at the EICR and come to notice how laughable it was. I notify the letting agents of the oven issue and also politely ask them to have the electrician take a second look at the EICR mentioning the incomplete test results and the lack of a gas bond - I mentioned the gas bond deliberately so they might infer I happen to have a slightly better knowledge of BS7671 than the average layman.
A few days later, the same electrician visited the property. Rather than test the installation for earth leakage he did the next best thing... removed the RCD completely and put a mains switch in its place (the board now has zero RCD protection). For some unknown reason, he also decided to remove the spare MCBs and instead of using blanking covers he put two strips of insulating tape over the gaps. Picture HERE. While my uncle was happy he could now use the oven I had to explain to him carefully how the fault has only been hidden and the installation is now a lot more dangerous.
Last correspondence from the letting agent: "Just closing this [ticket] down as the electrician has said he spoke to your uncle on site. All resolved and the certificate is correct."
So my second question to the qualified sparks here is, again for the benefit of our letting agent; how would you rate the competency and workmanship of an electrician who knowingly removes the RCD from an installation and in the process decimates the IP rating of a consumer unit? Particularly one that's only a foot off the ground and well within reach of children.
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