How many eicr in a day

[magnoliafan89]

Hi guys whats your take of how many EICRs can be done properly in a day average of 5 to 8 circuits ranging from 1 bed flats to 3 bed houses?? This would also include travel and also doing any repairs whilst there?

 

[Zerax]

The harsh reality is... that we can all moan about this all day long... but nothing will change. The only way the quality of EICRs will improve is if we start to have some prosecutions.

You only have to look at the total inaction against recent shenanigans with criminal damage to statues, or rioters in Brixton etc. to realise that any formal action against poor quality EICRs is never gonna happen.

 

[Baddegg]

All any one with any conscience can do is carry on doing them properly to the best of ya abilities....and if you lose trade to the drive by cowboys let em have it! ?

 

[hasel5]

Just started to be contacted to do a few by local estate agents when I say £300 you can hear them fall over but Hey ho there prob not mine.

 

[cloverman]

The sad bit about all of this is that's it's not the company who will suffer, But the poor bugger who is daft enough to put his/her signature on the paperwork as the responsible person !!! You are the one that they will come hunting for if disaster strikes.

 

[Baddegg]

One I had last year was a small Chinese takeaway.....the amount of faults I picked up was ridiculous.....he paid me anyways for the report and then just went with another spark who basically found nothing wrong......cheaper than getting me to repair all faults.....crazy times man ?

 

[Mike Johnson]

When I have the time I am going to contact the APS (Association of Project Safety) to see if they can do something under the CDM Regs.

 

[Dustydazzler]

Is smoke a fail?
Bugger ! I better change todays paperwork.

smoke is fine and just a c3 in my book , it’s Flames and sparks that you want to keep an eye out for....

 

[Baddegg]

People running and screaming just about edges me to C3.....ish

 

[pc1966]

People running and screaming just about edges me to C3.....ish

Yes, but only if it is someone you know...

 

[Zerax]

I've just had some annual Gas Safety Certificates done... £65 each... and he's in and out within an hour. Single page cerificate. That's gotta be a better business to be in than doing EICRs ?

 

[UNG]

I've just had some annual Gas Safety Certificates done... £65 each... and he's in and out within an hour. Single page cerificate. That's gotta be a better business to be in than doing EICRs ?

There's cowboys in the Gassafe scheme, my nephew recently bought a house that looked good on the surface to him and his girlfriend but from the estate agents pictures I worked out it needed a rewire. So after completion me and a mate of mine rock up to start the rewire after a bad start due to the number of other problems we find they decide to gut the kitchen, they wanted some of the pipework from the upstairs radiators to the boiler and the hot and cold water pipes moving so we got roped into that only to find that the plumber who fitted the combi boiler had plumbed the hot and cold to the boiler the wrong way round my mate suggested doing a drop test on the gas and yes the plumber had manged to sign off a gas tightness test and not notice that the fire in the lounge was faulty
Going back a few years my M-I-L had a gas fire serviced after the first visit my S-I-L smelt gas when she called round, after 2 more visits to fix it and still getting a smell of gas finaly the fourth guy fixed it properly after identifying there was an o ring missing so four different gassafe engineers and only one found the problem and the first one left site having created the leak
Gassafe for me is another one of those organisations that does not have a lot of credibility

 

[Baddegg]

I bought a house a few years back now, corgi scheme then, new boiler fitted and an old gas pipe under the floor had been termites by folding it back a few times!

 

[Dustydazzler]

I've just had some annual Gas Safety Certificates done... £65 each... and he's in and out within an hour. Single page cerificate. That's gotta be a better business to be in than doing EICRs ?

65£ you got ripped off

my local plumber is offering currently offering them for 25£ a pop

and a boiler service for 40£

 

[jay sean]

I worked for a small company who worked for a Housing Association, i was told to do 3 a day, I just got 1 a day test and repairs.
Sad to say I left and that company has gone bust

 

[Mike Johnson]

Have any of you been in touch with your scheme provider to ask for guidance on how long an EICR should take?