Private rental EICRs are coming soon

[Gavin John Hyde]

Just seen this....

Sparking safety in the Private Rented Sector

Government announces electrical checks for Private Rented Sector (PRS). Responding to the announcement of the imminent introduction of mandatory electrical safety checks in the Private Rented Sector (

professional-electrician.com

So come June/July we will have drive by dave doing them for £99.
It's like that around here now with hmo and house buying EICRs.
It sounds good on paper but unless there is a system to check quality it will work until somebody gets hurt.

 

[Welchyboy1]

??????at last a bit of good news, should of been implemented with the gas laws years ago!
Feel sorry for all those having to test & remedial all the slum landlords properties all over UK
Hard enough getting them to pay up for an hours call out

 

[Simon47]

It will be interesting to see what happens where one of our lasses rents. I can come up with more than one C2 just with a cursory look around. Haven't said anything as I don't want to get them kicked out

 

[peterhyper]

I rarely get EICRs that I quote for, because too many people are willing to undercut me and charge loose change in the hope they can get lots of work from the customer out of their EICR and make up their money that way (I won't ever get into that nonsense).