EICR - Advice on what I should expect?

[Newbie lanlird]

Hi - most grateful for advice on paperwork. I’ve just had an EICR, was told I had failed (no RCD at all, the cooker had the wrong cabling, reverse polarity on bathroom lights, we needed new junction boxes to 2 lights, a new light pendant and a new shower cord) We got the work done by the same registered electrician as did the inspection and have now received as sole paperwork a DEI condition report saying ‘satisfactory’ (no description of the previous failures and necessary remedial work) a domestic electrical installation certificate and the promise of a part p notification shortly. We also have an unitemised bill for £1100.00. Is this the right paperwork? Should we not have a list of failures?

 

[westward10]

Unless the client states otherwise normally you would receive the Report which outlines any departures from BS7671 with an overall outcome of "satisfactory" or "unsatisfactory", not "failed". Some clients just want a satisfactory Report and request any necessary remedial works are just carried out to achieve this instead of receiving an unsatisfactory Report. If you did not request this then you should have received an unsatisfactory Report from which you can then ask for a remedial quote, this would normally be itemized. After remedial works you should receive Minor Works Certificates and/or an Electrical Installation Certificate depending on the type of works carried out, a consumer unit change would be the latter and some works such as a consumer unit change are notifiable under Part P of the Building Regulations. You should not be held to ransom to have any works carried out to receive a satisfactory Report.

 

[littlespark]

You should have the unsatisfactory report in your possession, followed by the certificates to say that the remedial work has been completed. Keep them together as the certs prove the works needed on the report have been done.
You don’t need to pay for a second EICR just to get a satisfactory outcome.

Issueing certs is part of the work, and you needn’t have paid until you had the certs. As far as i would say, the work isn’t finished.

£1100 sounds about right with what you described.