Literally anyone can carry out an EICR...and I mean anyone. I bet a lot of wet pants consider themselves competent.
They are not even notifiable works.
There is practically no record of anyone ever being injured by a poor EICR or a person testing being prosecuted for poor certification.
So, why...
In the history of the world....no successful business owner proclaiming to me minted and highly successful, has spent his Sunday morning chatting Shiite on an Electrical forum.......#JustSayingLike
I’ve just stumbled on this whole situation and I’m absolutely howling at the level of trolling StarJack has achieved!
Is it not abundantly clear to you all that he is absolutely trolling the arrse out of you all ??
Stop biting to him. NEVER feed a troll....jeeez
However, as an ex-forced guy...
Buzz, which part is out of line? Please tell me.
Pete marked my post as dumb....I just replied in kind.
I can go link you to 10 threads where Pete has been argumentative.
Anyway, I’m out.
completely agree with OP.
Only thing I’d add, is how important it is to make sure the client knows exactly what you’r testing and noting it down in the “limitations” part of the Cert. This covers your arse and lets them know that I won’t be testing 100% of their installation for £200!!!
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If he’s still trading, you need to find out if he’s a member of one of the electrical schemes....either...NICEIC, NAPIT, STROMA.
If you find out that he is, and that should be very easily done.....each of those schemes has a way on their websites, to find out if someone is registered. All...
But it is operating in time.....the measured Zs of my example of 1.2 on a 32A ring circuit....is below 1.37 Max Zs required to make it operate on time.
Fair enough Essex...I’m not actually saying your wrong or that your not experienced or criticising how you operate.
I was asking for reasoning as to how I would justify to a customer that FI was required at possibly considerable cost....for something which I couldn’t back up with a reg.
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Would never happen....because the iet decide on these things and don’t see it as something they need to introduce to the form.
The NICEIC love to make their own stuff up, to somehow seem regulatory.
If this issue was in any way important....it would have been changed to a mandatory requirement.
its not that I entirely dismiss the 80% thing or don’t see the vague point.....it’s more that I can’t see how I explain to a customer that although my tests say it’s ok and it’s below the value stated in the regs, I’m going to code it and recommend potentially costly further...
noones answering my questions.......how you gonna convince the customer, that although your results meet the certs requirements......you still need further investigation.
And which code and which reg are you gonna quote ??
This is the minimum info that would be required in order to carryout...
I’m seriously confused here......you’d investigate what and whose orders ??
Your in for an EICR, the Cert asks for MAX Zs.
What code are you going to give a 1.20zs on a 32a ring like in my example above ??
Then, how are you going to explain to the person requesting the EICR that further...
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