Someone selling a house has been told by the buyer's solicitor that the property needs an "Electrical Count" - the solicitor didn't know what one was.
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Electrical Count
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Something lost in the transcribing by someone who didn't understand what they're talking about, I suspect.
They're probably trying to ask for a periodic inspection report, in which case I would response by saying it's not required, but the buyer is welcome to pay for one if they want to.
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Possibly a typo for (or mishearing of) "electrical certificate". We have just decided we shall have to move house - rather than wait to be moved out in body bags - and it seems conveyancers now routinely ask for EICs/Part P certificates/latest EICR.
(I fear I'll have to cough for an EICR as there's no bits of paper with magic initials on, unless we're lucky enough to get buyers who believe my test results or come and do their own).
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I can't think of any electrical Counts, although Joseph Swan was a Knight.
Send them a list showing the number of electrical power points, light switches and lights and see if they know what they really wanted.
Colin Bignell
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A robot of Dracula maybe?
Brian
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Adam maybe ??
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Several people I know have moved in last 2 years. I think the paperwork is always asked for (gas, windows, electrical, etc), but saying there isn't any never caused any problems.
In one case we said there was a boiler installation certificate, but when it was found, the installer had registered it against the wrong address, so it was useless, and we then had to say there wasn't one. No one cared in the least.
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It's bollocks.
They either meant:
Original EIC (Electrical Installation Certificate)
or an
EICR (Electrical Installation Condition Report, was called a "PIR")
The former - not many people have these, just say "NA".
if the second, tell the buyer to pay to have one commissioned at their expense, unless the seller is desperate to be "helpful".
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+1 - just say "NA" and see if they fuss...
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No-one cares. Just say you haven't got one. (We got within a sniff of selling our house about 3 years ago - we didn't have most of the paperwork we were asked for, but stating that was accepted for everything.)
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That could be a plausible mistranscription, if someone had just scrawled "Electrical Cond", anticipating it being expanded to something more formal.
Chris
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On 28 Apr 2014, Nightjar grunted:
Or just tell them you've totted up all the volts and it came to 230.
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Too much work.. send them the meter reading.
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Frankenstein.
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Let's see, an Earl is much the same as a Count, and Jarl is another word for an Earl. Jarl sounds very similar to joule which is an electrical unit so tell them how many of those you use.
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Thanks to you, Tim and Andrew. I'll try to stop fretting about that. (Paranoia reigns as we made a subsidence claim a few years ago which turned out to be a bad thing when a) little work was done as a result and b) a better surveyor advised later it was mostly historical movement as the plane trees grew.)
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It must be Count Alessandro Volta they're after.
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Or "Electrical Cert" - which was helpfully corrected by a spill chucker.