I may need to relocate for a while and am considering renting out my flat and have just begun researching my obligations as a potential landlord and it seems that you now need to have interlinked main powered smoke alarms and an EICR for the property and PAT test appliances etc (property is in Scotland).
The flat is circa 1990, so electrics a little dated now and there have been some subsequent additions that are in my opinion safe but not ideal.
Will a property fail an EICR for any of the following:
- Old consumer unit (circuit breakers but no RCD)
- Some electrical wiring (mainly for lighting in cupboards) is surface mounted, partly in plastic conduit, partly with the T+E clipped direct to wall.
- There is a spur off the ring main that supplies lighting and sockets in a cupboard (for IT equipment) and then spurs to a further single socket elsewhere - all of this is protected by a 13A FCU.
Since the consumer unit is pretty old, if I were to have it replaced with a modern one - would the electrician have to perform an EICR as part of the work?
Thanks...
The flat is circa 1990, so electrics a little dated now and there have been some subsequent additions that are in my opinion safe but not ideal.
Will a property fail an EICR for any of the following:
- Old consumer unit (circuit breakers but no RCD)
- Some electrical wiring (mainly for lighting in cupboards) is surface mounted, partly in plastic conduit, partly with the T+E clipped direct to wall.
- There is a spur off the ring main that supplies lighting and sockets in a cupboard (for IT equipment) and then spurs to a further single socket elsewhere - all of this is protected by a 13A FCU.
Since the consumer unit is pretty old, if I were to have it replaced with a modern one - would the electrician have to perform an EICR as part of the work?
Thanks...