I carry out EICRs for quite a few agents, Dexters Group being one.
I’ve been implicitly told by them NOT to do anything without permission of the landlord/owner.
Obviously this plays on the mind and I can only go as far turn off the main switch, which we all know will be turned on by the time I leave.
The responsibility for the safety of the installation is then passed to the landlord/agent as I’ve informed them of the issue. If they don’t want to fix it, I can’t forcibly do it.
I have done this before adding a circuit on to a fuseboard that I found in the same situation, and had the RCD trip due to 2 x hard wired appliances with reversed polarity.
Then spent a couple of hours emptying out kitchen cupboards looking for impossible to reach isolators so I could rectify this, for which I didn’t get paid for and had to cancel my next job because of.
Morally it’s the right thing to do of course, but not as simple as just swap it over in my opinion.
I’ve been implicitly told by them NOT to do anything without permission of the landlord/owner.
Obviously this plays on the mind and I can only go as far turn off the main switch, which we all know will be turned on by the time I leave.
The responsibility for the safety of the installation is then passed to the landlord/agent as I’ve informed them of the issue. If they don’t want to fix it, I can’t forcibly do it.
I have done this before adding a circuit on to a fuseboard that I found in the same situation, and had the RCD trip due to 2 x hard wired appliances with reversed polarity.
Then spent a couple of hours emptying out kitchen cupboards looking for impossible to reach isolators so I could rectify this, for which I didn’t get paid for and had to cancel my next job because of.
Morally it’s the right thing to do of course, but not as simple as just swap it over in my opinion.