Recent content by Hazel Barrett

The facts were outlined in full in the original thread, including the fact that our tenants called out the fire brigade and then the electrician whose bill is now the subject of this thread. 

He was not working live, as the powercsupply to the house had been isolated by the fire brigade who stated that the power could not be restored until the fuse board had been made safe by a competent electrician. 

In response to an earlier thread: no, he did not provide us with any certificates. What certificate should he have provided? 

Thanks. Good advice. We did ask for a breakdown of the labour chargeonly to be told that he had charged us 3 hours at 64.00 an hour for the Sunday evening, even though he only lives 20 minutes away from the property. He then charged again for the trip on Monday, as he didn't have an RCD with him...

We are based in Worcestershire. He is an independent electrician. 

The electrician did not replace the entire board but simply one RCD within it. 

Thanks for the reply, but I am not aware of posting this more than once. 

We have a rental property, for which we have a contract with British Gas for electrics. Two weeks ago, the tenant called them out to repace a faulty RCD in a fuse board. They did this, but failed to tighten the screws. The result was that the RCD blew and almost caused a fire. Distressed, our...