Electrocuted, by landlords washing machine

stevetodd

silvercar wrote: »

Phone up the local council private rental team / trading standards and ask them whether as a landlord it is necessary to do a full electrical check on a 3 year old property with a full electric certificate when new.

Then phone them up again and ask if a landlord would be negligent for failing to do another full electric check before the tenancy started.

All this has been covered and backed up with links earlier in this thread

TJ27

Gorgeous_George wrote: »

It is recommended that the safety certificate should be renewed every 5 years or when a tenant changes. I choose every 5 years.

GG

Do you have a HMO GG? If so, getting an electrical check is more than a recommendation, it is a requirement. I fear that you may indeed be the only landlord to be doing so. Well, one of very few anyway.

I regularly see on this forum that electrical checks are not legally required. For HMOs they most certainly are but hardly any landlords are aware of the laws relating to theirs.

Gorgeous_George

Sometimes we have to live with our own consciences regardless of what some suit at the Council might say.

Just because we do not have to do something doesn't mean that we shouldn't.

GG