Certification

[EFLImpudence]

Ah yes the house may be sold within a yr so prob best to go for one offering the 10 yr cert. The five yr one is by the cheap as chips sparki.

I issue 10 year certs on my rewired installation, just out of interest were do you live?

I usually present my certificates in a cellophane envelope and confidently expect them, if not exposed to moisture, to last at least 75 years.

 

[PrenticeBoyofDerry]

don't tell John that! If the certs last 75 yrs he'll expect the installation to last that long!

 

[JohnW2]

don't tell John that! If the certs last 75 yrs he'll expect the installation to last that long!

I realise that is meant in jest, but it makes me wonder if you actually understood what I was saying! As evidence of the current state of the electrical installation, the cert has an infinitely short life. Indeed, it has ceased to have that value even by the time it is completed, signed and handed to the customer, since the installation may, by then, have changed/deteriorated relative to when the documented inspection and testing was undertaken.

On the other hand, for as long as the bit of paper survives (75 years or whatever) it will be lasting evidence of what the state of the installation was at a particular time on a certain date in the past.

Kind Regards, John.

 

[chillout]

Thanks, very intresting responses here. Cheaps very temptin, but tbh I dont want hassle tto go along with it!

 

[JohnW2]

Thanks, very intresting responses here. Cheaps very temptin, but tbh I dont want hassle tto go along with it!

There are some genuine bargains out there but the general truth is that if it's cheap, it's usually cheap for a reason

Kind Regards, John.

 

[PrenticeBoyofDerry]

it makes me wonder if you actually understood what I was saying! As evidence of the current state of the electrical installation, the cert has an infinitely short life.

I do understand the point you are making John.
As you say, at that particular time that the certificate is made, this is a record confirming the condition of the installation. As soon as you pass that record over, turn and exit the door, who knows what is going to happen to it? The wiring could get altered or damaged!
I look at it this way, the cert proves when you walk away from the job, what the condition of the installation was in. It's record that confirms you have carried all the required inspections, tests and made comments on the installation as required. Whether customer wants one or not or even knows they should have one, I make sure they get it.
Covers my arse!

 

[JohnW2]

I look at it this way, the cert proves when you walk away from the job, what the condition of the installation was in. It's record that confirms you have carried all the required inspections, tests and made comments on the installation as required. Whether customer wants one or not or even knows they should have one, I make sure they get it. Covers my a**e!

Yes, I understand that, and it makes total sense for you. Whether it truly does 'confirm', for the customer, that all the required inspections and tests have been carried out is, of course, a slightly different question, since it's hardly an 'independent' person who has provided the cert

Kind Regards, John.