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I'm sorry, but it's simply not the case that an up-to-date Electrical Installation Certificate will make "precious little difference to a sale". I've known house sales fall through on much less. In fact, friends of mine recently risked loosing a sale of a £400k house over electrical work...

Having recently put my house up for sale, I decided to have the electrical system inspected and get an Electrical Installation Certificate to pre-empt any problems which might hold up the sale. The company I employed did a thorough (very thorough) job of checking everything and came up with a...

Thanks for these replies... and just to answer a few of the points raised. No, I definitely haven't been careless with my nailing (can't remember the last time I actually used nails inside the house!) - or screws or anything else. And, as has been pointed out, this couldn't cause the loss of...

Just had an electrical report for my house revealing a fairly lengthy list of minor problems - most of which I can deal with myself. However, rather more worryingly, it seems there's a problem with two of the ring main circuits which are described as: "No final continuity on sockets tested on...