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Unsatisfactory EICR: how bad is it?
mattiad
Posts: 2 Newbie
Hi all,
We had an EICR done a house we're trying to buy. The house is quite old (built in the late 1960s), and the EICR came back 'unsatisfactory', (a few C2 and some C3 issues) which is presume is pretty common for houses of this age. Now, we're trying to decide whether to go back to the vendor to renegotiate the price or not, and wanted to get some advice on whether the flaws that came up in the report are critical/expensive to be fixed. The C2s are:
- No earth on lighting circuit
- Main supply tails and earthing conductors too small
- No RCD Protection on some sockets
- Main earthing conductor incorrectly sized
- RCD protection not provided for mobile equipment for use outdoors
What do you think? Many thanks for any help!
We had an EICR done a house we're trying to buy. The house is quite old (built in the late 1960s), and the EICR came back 'unsatisfactory', (a few C2 and some C3 issues) which is presume is pretty common for houses of this age. Now, we're trying to decide whether to go back to the vendor to renegotiate the price or not, and wanted to get some advice on whether the flaws that came up in the report are critical/expensive to be fixed. The C2s are:
- No earth on lighting circuit
- Main supply tails and earthing conductors too small
- No RCD Protection on some sockets
- Main earthing conductor incorrectly sized
- RCD protection not provided for mobile equipment for use outdoors
What do you think? Many thanks for any help!
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Have you asked the electrician?0
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Lighting is actually okay to keep like that as long as you don't have any metal switches or light fittings (though some metal light fittings do not need an earth)
Any competent electrician should be able to upgrade the tails into the consumer unit. If the tails between the supply head and meter are faulty, report it as a dangerous condition and DNO should do that free.
Lack of RCD could be solved with RCBO's or worst case a new consumer unit.
It would not put me off buying the property.
It is only the C1 or C2 items that you have to fix to get a "satisfactory" C3 is like an advisory, probably worth doing as they are unlikely to cost much.0 -
Many thanks for this, it's reassuring to hear the C2s are not very concerning or costly issues. I will definitely ask the electrician who carried out the EICR for his opinion too - although there might be a bit of a conflict there if I then end up ask them to do the job.
Thanks again!0 -
No conflict. That is no different to asking the garage that failed your car's MOT to repair it.mattiad said:Many thanks for this, it's reassuring to hear the C2s are not very concerning or costly issues. I will definitely ask the electrician who carried out the EICR for his opinion too - although there might be a bit of a conflict there if I then end up ask them to do the job.
Thanks again!1
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