Mandatory EICRs in Rental Properties - 1 year or 5 years

[Spazz]

Please post your comments on here - state if you think EICRs should be done every year or 5 years.
Also please state your reason behind your choice - please don't put money!, profit for us, cost to landlords etc!

I will put this forward to Parliament in favor of which one is considered best by the experts in the field (us)

Please sticky this as well please

 

[imago]

Not following your point here. Are you suggesting all EICR's are a complete waste of time unless you have the intervention of an overseeing body

Pretty much as no one can give any assurance of quality for either the report or the person carrying out the examination. I did an EICR on a house a couple of weeks back, how do you, the home owner, or anyone else know how accurate it is? Was it a drive-by? Was it a "landlord's certificate"? Was it visual only? Or did I actually use my knowledge, experience to give a report on the visual, and did I carry out the full range of tests using my MFT?

Unless someone dies or is injured in a property I have inspected, no one will ever check my test results.

My point is that unless there is a monitoring system for the quality of EICR's anyone can do them in any way they see fit. So making them mandatory will simply massively increase the number of drive-by or just poorly executed tests.