Is it basically a visual inspection & test switches/sockets ?
Yes. C2. The connection must be inside an enclosure. The enclosure should provide strain relief for the cables.Is this a Fail
You can plug in a test lead into a Socket, every Multi Function Tester on the market should have this facility. It will determine what's Termed "Earth Fault Loop Impedance" or "ZS" for short. This will give a measurement of whether the Circuit will trip in time under fault conditions, it's good practice to take a number of sockets off the wall to visually check them. An End to End Resistance measurement will or should be taken of the conductors if it's a Ring Circuit - in theory this should also determine if there are any Bad connections (but not always).Is it basically a visual inspection & test switches/sockets ?
How do they check the sockets ?
Can they check/test a socket which is difficult to access via a short extension lead ?
Thanks
... and nor does 'the law' have any problem with that.Personally I feel where the occupant does not have the option to install protection themselves then is should be provided, so for an owner occupier I have no problem in them wanting to retain the old Wylex fuse box ...
Not just 'not easy', but it's not how the law (in England) works. You seem to be implying that if a tenant were happy with the safety features of the house they they could (legally) remain as tenants even if the electrical installation did not satisfy the requirements of the legislation - but that is not the case.... and I suppose any tenant can decide they don't like the safety features of the house and can leave, but in real terms we know not really that easy.
That's an interesting one, which would require one to see the Tenancy Agreement and consult a specialist lawyer. I imagine that Tenancy Agreements must have some provision for what happens if the property 'becomes uninhabitable' (for any reason) and the same may (or may not!) apply if it becomes illegal for the property to be rented to a tenant.... As to legal position not sure, if due to new law you can't rent the property legally then can't really see how any agreement which says you will is legal either, so I suppose a landlord could simply say sorry, not my fault, blame the English government.
this may mean the landlord has to rehouse the tenant.Tenancy Agreement
Sure - but, as I said, 'selling it' is not what the majority of landlords would want to do - since, particularly with interest rates as low as they are, income from 'the asset' is likely to be much greater by renting it out.What I am saying the landlord has the option if the property does not pass an EICR fix it or sell it.
Indeed - and that's why I pointed out that the law doesn't work in the way that you appeared to be suggesting - i.e. even if the tenant were happy to carry on living in the property with the electrical installation 'as it was' (and non-compliant with the legislation), the law does not allow for that.However the law allows the local authority to fix the problems, and charge the landlord ...
I haven't noticed that in the legislation. As I read it, if the initial inspection results in any C2s or C1s, then those alleged defects have to be 'remedied' (by the landlord or, failing that, the LA - at landlord's expense), without any requirement (that I have noticed) for any 'confirmation' that the defects are "real and need fixing". What have I missed?... but before that point the local authority has to confirm the faults are real and needs fixing.
Maybe you can help me, since I have never been able to make much, if any, sense of that sentence!.... [Part 3, Reg 4(1)] "Where a local housing authority has reasonable grounds to believe that, in relation to residential premises situated within its area, a private landlord is in breach of one or more of the duties under regulation 3(1)(a), (1)(b), (1)(c), (4) and (6), and the most recent report under regulation 3(3) does not indicate that urgent remedial action is required, the authority must serve a remedial notice on the private landlord."
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