Robin wrote:
Many HMOs involve just one (joint) tenancy - eg where students or other
friends are sharing. But other HMOs are let on the basis of several
sole tenancies - one for each room. So every time a room is re-let
there's a new tenancy. A new EICR for every new tenancy could mean
several a year for the same installation.

OTOH I'd expect landlords to do a walk-through on such a change to check
for damage to sockets etc. So he could pitch for that work on the basis
of him also replacing such sockets etc on the spot and then providing a
short report.

I've never been a landlord, but is there really a risk of sockets getting
damaged from year to year? Possibly yellowing over decades of use, but I
don't see how a socket that passed an EICR a year or two ago is suddenly
going to become broken - unless the tenant is in the habit of wielding a
baseball bat?

Obviously anything that is spotted as being broken should be replaced, but I
don't see it coming up high on the list of risks compared with, say, faulty
or expired smoke alarms.

Theo