Ethics around EICR

[UNG]

This is one of those interesting conundrums that puts you between a rock and a hard place

So you do an EICR or the buyer and you find some C1 issues, the question then is do you have a duty of care to inform the homeowner or do you just leave site and pass the results of the EICR to the buyer

Looking at the wider issue so another third party visits site to check something else for the buyer and receives a shock or is seriously injured as a result of the electrical issues you found but you only informed the buyer, you were the last electrician on site...... where is the finger of blame going to point and how is the law going to view your actions if it goes legal

I think I would obligated to inform the seller and depending on the remedial action needed if it is very minor fix it or agree a price if more major repairs are needed to make it safe

 

[pirate]

@littlespark just to confirm, I lifted that verbatim from a genuine Home Report Survey.
It does indeed show that the surveyor knows not a lot about electrical stuff...but of course he isn't an expert in that field.
I have seen surveys where the surveyor has commented that the fusebox looks very old and hanging off the wall, so checks should be carried out, but that's as far as they are allowed to go.

 

[brianmoooore]

Surveyors aren't alwaysany good at other aspects of their job, either.
Best one I ever came across was in a terraced house, where the lofts between the houses weren't separated to modern standards.
"Loft appears to contain large quantities of animal faeces (probably feral cats)"
I was intrigued by this when I went to size up the rewire for the new owners, so went too look for myself. "Faeces" were fillets of mortar holding the slates that had dropped down from the battens.
Sadly, I never did get to do that rewire. The new owners left a message on my 'phone the following week, asking if I could have a look at their washing machine. Before I had even replied, the owner had been discovered dead on her knees behind the machine with its rear cover removed. She had been trying to refit the belt on the large pulley, and had touched the live terminal on the heater element, which is typically just below the rim of the pulley.

 

[nicebutdim]

Not how I was expecting that post to end, but pretty much what concerned me about the past weekend's extractor fan thread.

 

[FatAlan]

Paid about £750 for a full survey on my current place. Produced a nice glossy brochure and was full a caveats and get out clauses. Stated the obvious with no real investigation. Missed the fact that two main roof ties were shot to bits with woodworm so ended up putting a new roof on. Went into it knowing it was a project but wondering what I got for my money on the survey.