Windmill
2015-04-21 09:15:39 UTC
I know there are or were some landlords who read this NG, so it won't
be just me who's affected.
It's not to be just the portable appliances (for which the PAT test is
to become compulsory) but the whole of the house wiring.
The Scottish government has passed a law requiring private landlords
(but not the Council; they are of course exempt) to employ an
electrical contractor to inspect the wiring and appliances in property
they rent out, and has adopted a scheme which makes it unlikely that
individual electricians could qualify as suitable persons to do the
work.
Maybe we'll see last week's new hire, given a zero-hours contract by an
employer who possesses appropriate accreditation, being sent out to
check the fusebox, and told that if it looks more than two years old to
insist that it and all the wiring must be replaced at a cost of 5,000.
The CORGI scheme seems to work a bit like that.
And employers are in a very good position to apply pressure to
zero-hours people.
There'll be favourite ploys, of course. Wasn't it at one time catalytic
converters on cars needing MOT renewal? Methods will be found to
extract money.
Politicians bleat about too-high rents: OK, how much should rents
increase to cover the new costs which are surely coming?
Of course they don't really care about rents, it's just a vote-catcher,
based partly on the fiction that landlords have a huge income.
be just me who's affected.
It's not to be just the portable appliances (for which the PAT test is
to become compulsory) but the whole of the house wiring.
The Scottish government has passed a law requiring private landlords
(but not the Council; they are of course exempt) to employ an
electrical contractor to inspect the wiring and appliances in property
they rent out, and has adopted a scheme which makes it unlikely that
individual electricians could qualify as suitable persons to do the
work.
Maybe we'll see last week's new hire, given a zero-hours contract by an
employer who possesses appropriate accreditation, being sent out to
check the fusebox, and told that if it looks more than two years old to
insist that it and all the wiring must be replaced at a cost of 5,000.
The CORGI scheme seems to work a bit like that.
And employers are in a very good position to apply pressure to
zero-hours people.
There'll be favourite ploys, of course. Wasn't it at one time catalytic
converters on cars needing MOT renewal? Methods will be found to
extract money.
Politicians bleat about too-high rents: OK, how much should rents
increase to cover the new costs which are surely coming?
Of course they don't really care about rents, it's just a vote-catcher,
based partly on the fiction that landlords have a huge income.
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J.R.R. Tolkien:- @ S c o t s h o m e . c o m
All that is gold does not glister / Not all who wander are lost