EIC or EICR for submain after new Consumer Unit?

[Tricksy]

For the house - new CU - a EIC as you have done

For the garage - if you have not done any work then EICR if you want to do an inspection on that - but if the garage is part of the house circuit (no CU in garage) then the garage needs to go on the House EIC as well - but it would be better to have a small CU in the garage as well for safety reasons

Thanks Nicholas. The garage does have its own CU and it all checks out ok.

 

[Engineer54]

Like others I was pleasantly surprised how helpful my elecsa assessor was, he did check things fairly thoroughly but I got the strong impression he wouldn't fail me unless he really had to! Still, good luck!

Failing one of these so-called assessments must be as rare, as an English doctor ever seeing the Ebola virus!! lol!! Haven't yet seen anyone come back on this and other forums saying they have failed a scam assessment, it seems it just don't happen!! And for very good reason i think!! lol!!!

 

[JustMaybe]

I had my house consumer unit changed on April 12th and paid. I had the detached garage rewired and the fuse box/consumer unit changed last week (may 23rd) I asked for the EIC and the electrician said the test sheet he gave was all I needed so I pressed him and he said he'd do an EICR for the house, I asked about the garage and he said he can't do 2 EIC for the same property...surely 2 separate jobs I get 2 certificates?

 

[SJD]

Bit of an old thread resurrected ...
You can have as many EIC as you need for a property, are you sure you had a real electrician do the work?

 

[James]

EIC should be provided for any new circuit.
e.g.
new consumer unit with 8 circuits, one EIC to cover it.
extra socket added to an existing circuit next week would require a minor works certificate
but a new circuit added or an extra consumer unit would require an EIC

easy way to think about it is

EIC (Electrical Installation Certificate)
required for installing any new circuit

MWC (Minor Works Certificate)
required for modifying an existing circuit,
such as adding something to it, or changing an accessory

EICR (Electrical Installation Condition Report)
for reporting the condition of an existing installation or part of it.
not to be used for certification of a new circuit.