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<blockquote data-quote="Lurch" data-source="post: 441113" data-attributes="member: 6967"><p>That happens everywhere, it's not a Bristol thing.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The problem is that when you rent it out you have a duty of care and a responsibility to keep the house safe. If anything happened and the electrics were faulty/not to standard this could be blamed for issues, but like everything no-one cares until something happens then they look for someone/something to blame. Part of this duty of care is to have it professionally inspected and maintained. I have no doubt that you didn't intentionally ignore issues and leave things incorrect/dangerous but there are plenty of things that aren't technically right, and could cause an issue later on.</p><p></p><p>I rented my house out and had to do loads of little things to make it satisfactory. None of these things were an issue, and most of them were to 16th edition so it wasn't that they were a problem electrically, just an issue on paper. I could have left them all as they were, but then if anything did happen it would be me that got asked why they were left like that and the installation not tested/certificate not issued. On the flip side of that, I am in a rented house now, that has 2 used circuits (1 ring main, 1 lighting circuit) for a 4 bedroom house and no RCD, with an old (50's probably) cutout with a 30A fuse. Not an issue currently but if the house burns down I know what will be blamed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lurch, post: 441113, member: 6967"] That happens everywhere, it's not a Bristol thing. The problem is that when you rent it out you have a duty of care and a responsibility to keep the house safe. If anything happened and the electrics were faulty/not to standard this could be blamed for issues, but like everything no-one cares until something happens then they look for someone/something to blame. Part of this duty of care is to have it professionally inspected and maintained. I have no doubt that you didn't intentionally ignore issues and leave things incorrect/dangerous but there are plenty of things that aren't technically right, and could cause an issue later on. I rented my house out and had to do loads of little things to make it satisfactory. None of these things were an issue, and most of them were to 16th edition so it wasn't that they were a problem electrically, just an issue on paper. I could have left them all as they were, but then if anything did happen it would be me that got asked why they were left like that and the installation not tested/certificate not issued. On the flip side of that, I am in a rented house now, that has 2 used circuits (1 ring main, 1 lighting circuit) for a 4 bedroom house and no RCD, with an old (50's probably) cutout with a 30A fuse. Not an issue currently but if the house burns down I know what will be blamed. [/QUOTE]
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