On Thursday, 13 July 2017 11:42:18 UTC+1, Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at
03:08:40 on Thu, 13 Jul 2017, whisky-dave
remarked:
However, an "electrical safety check" is unlikely to reveal anything useful.

If it includes looking up the serial number to see if it's on a recall
list, and then whether the repair has been done, that's a step in the
right direction.

Who's fault would it be if the person renting owns the appliance rather than
whoever rents the property. Also many fires are started from faulty chargers etc...
So if such a test revealed that a person has dangerous chargers would they be taken away, would the owner have to buy new complient ones who'd
ensure this?
Is it teh job of teh govenrment the person renting or the landlord ?

Get whatever CORGI is called this week to explain how they deal with
annual inspections of gas appliances in rented houses.

Much earlier in the thread there were plausible examples given of how in
effect PAT-testing criteria would catch a lot of risky equipment before
it actually burst into flames.

In most cases it wouldn't, a visual check would be more likely to find serious faults.

PAT-testing of many items *is* just a visual check.

No it's not. A PAT test would give you at the very least the Earth resistance, in the past I;ve had items that have failed this.

https://www.pattesters.co.uk/martind...SABEgJntfD_BwE

If all you need is to look just get a paair of glasses or a webcam.