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<blockquote data-quote="Doc Hudson" data-source="post: 490501" data-attributes="member: 1607"><p>An "electrician" not competent to do a proper EICR is also probably not competent to do appropriate investigation, testing and diagnosis of the fault symptoms. Your logic suggests someone doing fault investigations is more competent than another undertaking an EICR?</p><p></p><p>Who's to say an incompetent person asked to investigate the fault doesn't just come back with scare stories about needing full rewire to resolve the tripping? An EICR is just an observation of the condition of an installation, and if done correctly, along with other information will come back with verification about the condition of the fixed wiring and the characteristics of the RCD, which will both be needed, IMHO, as part of the fault investigation of the tripping problem. i.e. Some of the same testing encompassed both remits Fault &amp; EICR. </p><p></p><p>Are we now saying an installation 15years old would require an EICR, unless the customer has a fault, in which case the EICR requirement becomes irrelevant?</p><p></p><p>Doc H.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Doc Hudson, post: 490501, member: 1607"] An "electrician" not competent to do a proper EICR is also probably not competent to do appropriate investigation, testing and diagnosis of the fault symptoms. Your logic suggests someone doing fault investigations is more competent than another undertaking an EICR? Who's to say an incompetent person asked to investigate the fault doesn't just come back with scare stories about needing full rewire to resolve the tripping? An EICR is just an observation of the condition of an installation, and if done correctly, along with other information will come back with verification about the condition of the fixed wiring and the characteristics of the RCD, which will both be needed, IMHO, as part of the fault investigation of the tripping problem. i.e. Some of the same testing encompassed both remits Fault & EICR. Are we now saying an installation 15years old would require an EICR, unless the customer has a fault, in which case the EICR requirement becomes irrelevant? Doc H. [/QUOTE]
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