Buying a house (electrical paperwork)
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I am currently in the process of purchasing a new home (not a new build). On the 'Law Society' form there is a question 4.2d Electrical work since January 2005.
It does not ask anything else other than a yes or no, yet the question relating to building work asks for documentation.
It does not ask anything else other than a yes or no, yet the question relating to building work asks for documentation.
You are not guaranteed to receive any paper work for the electrics as they may not be any. Your solicitor will confirm this.
You could ask the vendor for any previous documentation such as EIC (electrical installation certificate), minor works certificate for any work or alteration done to the property over the years or any paperwork concerning PIR (periodic inspection reports) that should ideally have been done at least every ten years of the property's live or on change of occupancy, this rarely happens. The PIR is now known as the EICR(electrical installation condition report) You could ask for one of these to be taken out prior to purchase.
The vendor will be given a tick list to fill out prior to sale, which your solicitor will be given, this should state on it if any work has been carried out on the property in a given period of time and if certificates have been issued and are available for the work been done.
You could ask the vendor for any previous documentation such as EIC (electrical installation certificate), minor works certificate for any work or alteration done to the property over the years or any paperwork concerning PIR (periodic inspection reports) that should ideally have been done at least every ten years of the property's live or on change of occupancy, this rarely happens. The PIR is now known as the EICR(electrical installation condition report) You could ask for one of these to be taken out prior to purchase.
The vendor will be given a tick list to fill out prior to sale, which your solicitor will be given, this should state on it if any work has been carried out on the property in a given period of time and if certificates have been issued and are available for the work been done.
Approved document P of the Building Regulations to put it in simple terms is a minimum standard requirement for all electrical work conducted in England & Wales. For example it suggests that BS7671 is the standard to be used for electrical installations. It also gives the circumstances under which electrical work requires notification to the Local Authority Building Control.
Your solicitors should have asked the vendors in the disclosure notice whether any electrical work has been conducted on the house since a set period - some pick 2005.
If electrical work has been completed since that date and depending on the type of work involved the vendors should have received a Minor works report or an electrical installation certificate and if the work requires notification the vendors should also have received a Building Compliance Certificate.
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Thanks for the replies, sorry not had chance to respond before today.
Its a house my nephew has just bought, he was told, by solicitors or estate agents, that a PIR was carried out in 2009 and everything was fine. I didn't see the house before purchase was complete, but Im quite surprised that the set up around the consumer unit wasn't mentioned in the PIR.
Main consumer unit has about six cartridge type fuses, from this cu (not sure where the connections are made, not removed the cover) run a single black and a single red (looks like 6mm) into another small cu for the shower. The single black and red look as though they've been stripped out of a piece of 6mm t+e, and only have the single insulation.
Being in old colours i'm presuming that the shower was installed before 2009 and would have thought it would have received fault codes on the PIR.
The solicitors were supposed to be sending the PIR but we've not seen anything yet.
Its a house my nephew has just bought, he was told, by solicitors or estate agents, that a PIR was carried out in 2009 and everything was fine. I didn't see the house before purchase was complete, but Im quite surprised that the set up around the consumer unit wasn't mentioned in the PIR.
Main consumer unit has about six cartridge type fuses, from this cu (not sure where the connections are made, not removed the cover) run a single black and a single red (looks like 6mm) into another small cu for the shower. The single black and red look as though they've been stripped out of a piece of 6mm t+e, and only have the single insulation.
Being in old colours i'm presuming that the shower was installed before 2009 and would have thought it would have received fault codes on the PIR.
The solicitors were supposed to be sending the PIR but we've not seen anything yet.
Even 6mm singles i.e. no double insulation at all between the two cu's
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