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<blockquote data-quote="Doc Hudson" data-source="post: 457342" data-attributes="member: 1607"><p>Possibly, but there again unless you have paid for several days worth of inspection and testing time then some items will have been omitted from the schedule. There is a book called guidance note 3 which gives instruction for undertaking an electrical inspection. It is an industry standard procedure where a sample of items are checked and tested to get an overall perception of what the condition of the installation is probably like. To comprehensively test everything would take at lot longer than a single day. So there is always an element of risk that and item could be overlooked. As I said earlier on an inspection report there is a box to list the extent and limitation of the testing.</p><p></p><p>Everything that is wearing out has a final point of failure, where the day before it was still working ok. As Andy said you could MOT your car on Monday and by Friday the washer pump could have failed, a break light blown, the windscreen chipped in the line of sight and it would fail 5 days later. Whether or not you think he should have picked it up is irrelevant as you have chosen to get someone else in to amend the installation from that which was tested. so several aspects of the inspection report will be obsolete now anyway. (RCD trips times recorded can only apply to the RCD that is fitted, not an item that has been removed one week later.) As I asked earlier, did your second electrician give you an electrical certificate for his work?</p><p></p><p>Doc H. </p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Doc Hudson, post: 457342, member: 1607"] Possibly, but there again unless you have paid for several days worth of inspection and testing time then some items will have been omitted from the schedule. There is a book called guidance note 3 which gives instruction for undertaking an electrical inspection. It is an industry standard procedure where a sample of items are checked and tested to get an overall perception of what the condition of the installation is probably like. To comprehensively test everything would take at lot longer than a single day. So there is always an element of risk that and item could be overlooked. As I said earlier on an inspection report there is a box to list the extent and limitation of the testing. Everything that is wearing out has a final point of failure, where the day before it was still working ok. As Andy said you could MOT your car on Monday and by Friday the washer pump could have failed, a break light blown, the windscreen chipped in the line of sight and it would fail 5 days later. Whether or not you think he should have picked it up is irrelevant as you have chosen to get someone else in to amend the installation from that which was tested. so several aspects of the inspection report will be obsolete now anyway. (RCD trips times recorded can only apply to the RCD that is fitted, not an item that has been removed one week later.) As I asked earlier, did your second electrician give you an electrical certificate for his work? Doc H. [/QUOTE]
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