Is there an annual landlord inspection which is visual only?

[telectrix]

I don't think a Visual Inspection is so valueless. In addition to a 5-yearly EICR, a check of the state of the electrics between tenancies is valuable for the landlord or agent because it gives them a list of items which need to be fixed to ensure accessories are all undamaged and serviceable for the next tenants. Things such as broken sockets, damaged flex cables, exposed live parts, scorch marks suggesting overloading, loose ceiling roses, any evidence of tampering with the installation etc. For the inspector there is usually some follow on work if problems are found. An agent I work for has a large number of student properties and it's amazing how much abuse a house can get from boistrous youngsters. I don't know if this has ever been tested legally but I think a 5 yearly EICR and visual inspection between tenancies with follow up repair of reported problems would show that the agent was exercising a reasonable duty of care.

if it's students, then it should be left alone with all faults un fixed. might get the lazy buggers out of bed if the mattress becomes live.

 

[Thomas123]

The visual inspections are not that bad come on.. Especially in places like rented accommodation, student lets, comprehensive schools where equipment is likely to get abused and damaged, the amount of times I've done work in comprehensive schools and have seen sockets completely smashed off the wall with cables exposed, grid switched with the switched and neons pushed in and live parts exposed. And nothing is done about it. This visual inspection is a good idea for stuff like this.

Your are comparing an installation to a car? But that's not the purpose of the visual inspection, the purpose is what I've stated above. Broken equipment exposing live conductors, not if it has a low IR, that is for the periodic eicr

 

[Guest55]

Last domestic EICR i did 3 weeks ago had ;

x2 code 1's
x4 code 2's
x6 code 3's

of those 12 defects , 10 were identified by visual inspection , 2 were identified by testing.
Yet the general concensous on here is that a visual inspection on its own is worthless , very strange outlook really when you consider most code 1's arent discovered with any cable testing at all.
Well give the landlord a full EICR every time tenants move out if it makes you happy , all he is paying for is sheet after sheet of numbers and tickboxes that only an electrician understands , not really much use to the customer is it ?

Oh and the example of car mechanicals doesnt hold water either.
During an MOT absolutley no parts are removed during the inspection , its very thorough but remains entirely visual.
Yet some argue a visual has no value...................Department of Transport clearly disagrees.

 

[Silly Sausage]

During an MOT absolutley no parts are removed during the inspection , its very thorough but remains entirely visual.
Yet some argue a visual has no value...................Department of Transport clearly disagrees.

MOTs...rolling road for brake test, pipe on exhaust for emissions, etc.
Sounds like testing to me.

 

[Guest55]

And parts arent removed for any of them.