Buyers having Electrical Report

theartfullodger

ProDave wrote: »

If it was rewired in 2003 it would have been to the 16th edition ...................

Sadly SHOULD rather than WOULD..

(Bit like stating if you were driving on motorway your speed would be below 70 mph.....)

victoriavictorious

Thank you everyone - I'll have to collar Mr. VV and sort out that labelling.
I don't doubt for a moment that once this report is done, there'll be something else to be getting their knickers in a twist about.
We'd have been delighted if the house we're buying needed as little work as the one we're selling!

Robin9

Insufficient sockets is a subjective comment. My bedrooms only have two singles

When my parents house was wired in the 1950's the requirements were a single socket upstairs, a single downstairs and a cooker circuit.

victoriavictorious

ProDave wrote: »

If it was rewired in 2003 it would have been to the 16th edition and I would expect an RCD protecting sockets and showers etc. If there is not, I suspect it is a lot older than 2003.

This looks like a surveyors report, not a proper "Electrical Installation Condition Report" which will have coded "faults" as C1, C2 or C3.

Insufficient sockets is not a reason to fail an EICR

Labeling them yourself is easy. Turn them all off. Then turn just 1 on at a time. Go round the house and see what works and label it accordingly. Repeat for each mcb 1 at a time. You will end up with labels like "downstairs sockets" "upstairs lights" "cooker" "shower" etc etc. For no cost, just bit of time, you have removed one "fault"

Thank you for that.
Yes this was the surveyor's report and they are getting a separate electrical check as a result.
2003 is just an 'educated guess' on my part, as that was when some major building work was carried out by previous owners.
The survey does state that the consumer unit is a modern one, and the cabling pvc, but with no RCD (so not *ancient.*)

Smodlet

Mmm. There should really be an RCD if it is 2003 but I understand you cannot possibly know the date of the wiring. Do you have any metal light fittings, vv? If you do and no-one has ever been shocked changing a light bulb (how many college football players does it take?) without turning off the mains, I would hazard (:D) a guess your wiring is not in bad nick.

(The entire team! And they all get a semester's credit for it)

macman

First time buyers invariably seem to have unrealistic expectations: they expect a property to be as if it were newly built, with no work needed at all.
They can raise whatever they like, and you can refuse to negotiate. If they've already shelled out for a full survey and electrical report, then they are the ones with something to lose if the sale falls through-not you.

Badger50

How can we (if indeed we can) ensure that this electrical report will not be biased and possibly recommend unnecessary work that we cannot either prove or disprove?

When I last sold I had my own EICR done. Well worth the cost IMO. They are supposed to be done every 10 years in any case (admittedly more honoured in the breach than in the observance).

AnotherJoe

Badger50 wrote: »

When I last sold I had my own EICR done. Well worth the cost IMO. They are supposed to be done every 10 years in any case (admittedly more honoured in the breach than in the observance).

"Supposed" to be done? Sez whom ?

victoriavictorious

Smodlet wrote: »

Mmm. There should really be an RCD if it is 2003 but I understand you cannot possibly know the date of the wiring. Do you have any metal light fittings, vv? If you do and no-one has ever been shocked changing a light bulb (how many college football players does it take?) without turning off the mains, I would hazard (:D) a guess your wiring is not in bad nick.

(The entire team! And they all get a semester's credit for it)

We don't have any metal fittings or switches, as far as I'm aware. 4 rooms have (plastic) dimmer switches too.
And no one (not even the college football players) has ever got a shock from changing a light bulb in our gaff!

victoriavictorious

macman wrote: »

First time buyers invariably seem to have unrealistic expectations: they expect a property to be as if it were newly built, with no work needed at all.
They can raise whatever they like, and you can refuse to negotiate. If they've already shelled out for a full survey and electrical report, then they are the ones with something to lose if the sale falls through-not you.

I totally agree with you about ftb.
Unfortunately though,we've also incurred similar costs for the house we're buying, so if these buyers pulled out, we'd also be the losers as our vendor would be very unlikely to wait for the chain to become complete again.