Dear MERV, I, as the originator of the EICR and LANDLORDS thread , should be the 'punch-bag' for your remarks and so I want to apologise to you for not responding earlier. It was never my intention to begin an on-line thread which would cause you to respond with such obvious, sincere strongly held conviction. It was written as my opinion ( I wrote - I think it should be mandatory...) and so as such it can be safely ignored by you - I am not a legislator nor will I be spending any energy trying to influence those that are to make an EICR or something akin to one mandatory. 'Mandatory' is a very strong word and in hind sight I should have written something like 'As a landlord I think it is one way of assuring a new tenant of the safety of the rented property's electrical installation to present him/her with a copy of an in-date EICR', there being of course other satisfactory ways it could be done.
I am by no means an expert on EICRs - I employ a competent electrician to do the EICRs on my 3 flats. The other 2 EICRs I have seen where on my home and that of my parent's. I picked an EICR for my flats because I liked the content and thoroughness of those done on my home and that of my parent's so I asked the same electrician to do the flats as well when I bought them.
Dear 'Flash of Electricians' - (what is the collective term for sparkies?) - As ever the wisdom of the crowd has been generously offered in response to my OP. I have learned more than I contributed and am better informed on the matter of EICRs as applied to rented properties and their usefulness or otherwise. For those whose blood pressure and heart beat have been elevated unnecessarily by what I inadvertently set in train - please accept my apology too.
I hope this personal apology might now draw a line under what I started off.
I am by no means an expert on EICRs - I employ a competent electrician to do the EICRs on my 3 flats. The other 2 EICRs I have seen where on my home and that of my parent's. I picked an EICR for my flats because I liked the content and thoroughness of those done on my home and that of my parent's so I asked the same electrician to do the flats as well when I bought them.
Dear 'Flash of Electricians' - (what is the collective term for sparkies?) - As ever the wisdom of the crowd has been generously offered in response to my OP. I have learned more than I contributed and am better informed on the matter of EICRs as applied to rented properties and their usefulness or otherwise. For those whose blood pressure and heart beat have been elevated unnecessarily by what I inadvertently set in train - please accept my apology too.
I hope this personal apology might now draw a line under what I started off.
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