Is my Property Electrical Test and Inspection Report Misleading?

[BlueToBits]

So as written, if it is compliant with an earlier set of regulations and does not give rise to danger it should not be mentioned in the report.
The regs seem to be now placing the onus on the inspector to determine :

1. if something is compliant with the regs that were current at the time of installation
   1. to do so the inspector must be as conversant with all previous standards as with the current standard. I'd consider myself fairly old school but my knowledge of the 13th edition and earlier is non existant.
   2. the inspector must have some way of determining the exact age of the installation to apply the correct regulation version
2. if a suspect deviation, despite it not complying with the current standard but apparently compliant with an earlier standard, does or does not give rise to danger
   1. It is up to his own opinion to decide if the old regulation is still complied with rather than to refer to a quotable regulation number supporting the fact.
   2. Which of the older regulations are now to be deemed unsafe? Aluminium T&E?, wrapped soldered and camera taped joints? fused neutrals? wooden switch boxes? all these were once fully compliant.

What we need is a new set of regulations itemising which of the current regulations we don't need to worry about and which of the old regulations are perfectly OK. 2 volumes perhaps, each with 5 guidance notes, regularly amended every 2-3 years at £85 per book.
Or a very robust Professional Indemnity Insurance policy

 

[Deleted member 26818]

2. fused neutrals.
The rest are still compliant, just that the ESC/NICEIC don't like wooded switch boxes

 

[GLENNSPARK]

So as written, if it is compliant with an earlier set of regulations and does not give rise to danger it should not be mentioned in the report.
The regs seem to be now placing the onus on the inspector to determine :

1. if something is compliant with the regs that were current at the time of installation
   1. to do so the inspector must be as conversant with all previous standards as with the current standard. I'd consider myself fairly old school but my knowledge of the 13th edition and earlier is non existant.
   2. the inspector must have some way of determining the exact age of the installation to apply the correct regulation version
2. if a suspect deviation, despite it not complying with the current standard but apparently compliant with an earlier standard, does or does not give rise to danger
   1. It is up to his own opinion to decide if the old regulation is still complied with rather than to refer to a quotable regulation number supporting the fact.
   2. Which of the older regulations are now to be deemed unsafe? Aluminium T&E?, wrapped soldered and camera taped joints? fused neutrals? wooden switch boxes? all these were once fully compliant.

What we need is a new set of regulations itemising which of the current regulations we don't need to worry about and which of the old regulations are perfectly OK. 2 volumes perhaps, each with 5 guidance notes, regularly amended every 2-3 years at £85 per book.
Or a very robust Professional Indemnity Insurance policy

well...your fused neutrals would fail on a condition report inspection schedule

132.14.1

 

[bigbaddave]

The electrician who fitted the selv fan mentioned he could test the new installation but only up to a point as some testing requires earthing, but if not he would make a note.

The house was built around 1948 and is a 3-bed semi, unfortunately i havent got any way to get the cert online In total I have about 13 light points.



Is there anywhere on the cert (DPN4) that would tell me this has been checked or would it be hand written notes?

Thanks for the posts btw

Circuit board details (R1 + R2) Value or just R2?