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I thought EICR was only necessary if you wanted to rent the place out.
I'm not sure, but my solicitor asked for one and was given the failling one. I'm happy enough that the works been done, but prior to this work it was 'unsatisfactory' and 'tripping out'.
I think that getting a passing EICR is a reasonable request given the one I was provided with was failing. I'm just not sure if the Installation certificate I've got will have included / surpassed the the tests that would have been done on the EICR (which is what's being claimed), so the EICR is unneccesary.
christianSpaceman-
what age of house is this?
I wouldn't be overly worried unless the whole place needs re-wired i which case you just factor that into the purchase price.
if it has a reasonably modern consumer unit with RCDs on the ring mains (in addition to MCBs), the chances of anything bad happening are quite low.
ChasnotRobert
I thought EICR was only necessary if you wanted to rent the place out.
Also, our place was technically failing the current tests because they changed a bunch of shit. When we bought it, we had a new consumer unit installed, everything was to code, etc. but now they want metal encased consumer units and blah blah so it was no longer up to code. But we're having the kitchen done so decided to just pay and get it done even though legally we didn't need to.
So, I guess, if you're going to live there, find out WHY it's failing. Sometimes everything is fine and it's just using old rules. Sometimes there's actually risky stuff.