EICR, CU Fire Board - What Rules are Retrospective?

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This seems to be the standard procedure with EICRs where they are only being done as a legal requirement. The electrician walks around the property looking for easy jobs that he can do for a tidy profit, and writes a report to suit. The numbers - which 99% of the people who commission the reports don't even begin to understand - could be entirely fictitious. See numerous other similar threads on here.

A big problem is that scumbags can bid very low prices for the initial report, then make up for those initial low prices by some combination of..

1. Not doing the inspetion/report itself properly.
2. Inventing or exagerating faults, then charging high prices for the remedial work.

In an environment where the people commissioning the reports have no knowledge or stake in the outcome and/or are being pressed to demonstrate "fairness" it's really hard for honest people to compete with such scumbags.

I'd like to imagine that you could find someone who will write an honest report if you paid more than the lowest price offered, but I don't think we've seen any evidence of that.

It's the nature of a forum like this that the people we see are the people who are having problems. I'm sure we have seen some people come here with EICRs and gone "yes the report is slightly sloppy, but the broad strokes are correct and remedial work is indeed needed". I'm equally sure we don't see all the people who got a "pass, you are good for another 5 years".