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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.
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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.