Close to exchange - unsatisfactory electrical report

simba_9

LegallyLandlord said:

If it was tenanted until recently,  it should have had a satisfactory EICR (electrical installation condition report) and you would have been acting reasonably to expect not to have to rewire. The landlord will have been in breach of the law in renting a property out without satisfactory electrics.

I would negotiate a price reduction and say you assumed the wiring was up to modern standards as it would have been illegal for him/her to rent it out if it wasn’t. 

EICR was done in 2020 and marked satisfactory although seemed it was more limited that the report I got for my electrician.

ansaryon

dil1976 said:

Not sure why you had that miuch work done, most of that wouldnt of been needed to install a EV charger.

All I really needed was earth bonding, but nobody would touch it with the old fuseboard in place (and to be fair, earth bonding cabling would have been a very tight squeeze into one of those old Wylex boxes). So that meant a new consumer unit.

And, having gone that far, even though it wasn't *technically* required, I decided to go for the rest of it, given that I was looking at a fair bit of disruption anyway. It means I have a shiny "satisfactory" EICR certificate, and as it was done at the same time as the stuff I actually needed it was cheaper than doing the work at a later date. Besides, as no testing whatsoever had been done for the previous 40 years, it was about time to get it all checked.

(And at least it means I don't need a full rewire. Luckily despite being late 50s downstairs, the wiring is all in PVC. It'll probably outlive me!)