Thanks for the thoughts - it's always interesting to see other's views and 'calibrate' my decisions so that I'm happy I'm not too strict or too lax on EICRs.
In this case I think I'll still blank them - it's an unstaffed HMO with quite short term tenants that has had problems before with tenants not necessarily behaving in the most sensible way - so best to try and avoid the room lighting going out if possible. There's zero chance of pelmet lighting ever being installed, and if it was, I'd be the one doing it anyway....
Crappy rewire job done 5 years ago TBH, by an NICEIC DI.
The surveyor for the remortgage even picked up several things, including lack of cable clipping and a poorly extended cooker circuit.
Looks like I'll have to run water bonding too - the water pipe seems to come in from next door (old Victorian terraced house) and resistance check pipe to MET is ~14kOhm, so extraneous if using the 10ma limit test, though not if using 30mA.
Naturally the previous EIC had water bonding ticked, even though there is clearly not a bonding cable leaving the cupboard!
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