How can anyone think this is acceptable ...

[Octopus]

Victorian house - just rewired.

EIC provided .......

Description of works "total rewire of all circuits. Dead tests only"

Speechless

Rant over..................

 

[Ian1981]

Unnecessary is not the same as not allowed.
They can’t tell you not to test live as you follow bs7671 as they should.

 

[ipf]

I have been in the NICEIC for 26 years, I couldn't give a monkeys arm pit about what tony cable says, the inspector who I used to deal with would insist on live test results.

And he finished last year too. Agree...absolute crap.

 

[ipf]

I have been in the NICEIC for 26 years, I couldn't give a monkeys arm pit about what tony cable says, the inspector who I used to deal with would insist on live test results.

And he finished last year too. Agree...absolute crap....and I've been in for 30 years.

 

[MDJ]

Yep very true, I have never heard so much rubbish in one reply lol, "dead tests are not a requirement lol", next we will be told toast can be made without heat lol.

 

[ipf]

Yep very true, I have never heard so much rubbish in one reply lol, "dead tests are not a requirement lol", next we will be told toast can be made without heat lol.

......and you'll have to isolate the property to test if a circuit is dead

 

[Strima]

The NIC prefer one live test carried out a source (Ze), the remainder can be by calculation from dead test results. They like it this way as it reduces the risk to the tester etc etc etc.

 

[Octopus]

Yep very true, I have never heard so much rubbish in one reply lol, "dead tests are not a requirement lol", next we will be told toast can be made without heat lol.

Well ........... the EU think we can save energy but using less powerful kettles ...................

 

[MDJ]

The NIC prefer one live test carried out a source (Ze), the remainder can be by calculation from dead test results. They like it this way as it reduces the risk to the tester etc etc etc.

Where do you get this information? I am happy to talk to the local NICEIC engineer about your views when I go to a meeting next time. Can you E-Mail me your membership number and company registration number so I can ask them to look into your claims?

 

[Rpa07]

IT takes all the fun out of perching on a step ladder with your meter prongs up a in rose hole! My tester won't be much please to hear this, I'm very protective over her! There there, don't listen to the nasty men!

 

[ipf]

The NIC prefer one live test carried out a source (Ze), the remainder can be by calculation from dead test results. They like it this way as it reduces the risk to the tester etc etc etc.

Maybe that's for NICEIC testers who aren't confident about testing live.....or don't know what WTF they're doing.

 

[MDJ]

Maybe that's for NICEIC testers who aren't confident about testing live.....or don't know what WTF they're doing.

Nah, impossible, how can you install a circuit and not do a live test on it? Strima is having a laugh with us, you'll see he will come on in a minute with a cheeky grin, surely lol.

 

[Strima]

Where do you get this information? I am happy to talk to the local NICEIC engineer about your views when I go to a meeting next time. Can you E-Mail me your membership number and company registration number so I can ask them to look into your claims?

I got it direct from my area engineer around three years ago.

Doesn't mean to say I listened to him does it?

 

[Strima]

Nah, impossible, how can you install a circuit and not do a live test on it? Strima is having a laugh with us, you'll see he will come on in a minute with a cheeky grin, surely lol.

Where did I say I don't do live testing?

 

[MDJ]

I got it direct from my area engineer around three years ago.

Doesn't mean to say I listened to him does it?

Well to be fair I do like and respect you Strima and always have, but I would suggest your engineer is a numpty and lets be fair you know it as well lol, so based on that please don't back the muppet up, whats his name so I can humiliate him at the next NICEIC meeting I attend?

 

[MDJ]

Where did I say I don't do live testing?

I never said you didn;'t I was replying to your comment you heard that you didn't have to, it is my gloucestershire accent that came across all wrong