Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Good electrician, bad electrician

I will be glad when the rewiring is done - it's due to start on 3rd December.  Lucky Matt, it coincides with his 6 days off work.  There are some good things though.  We get to decide where we want plug sockets - there's been a huge leap in the amount of electrical equipment people have since the wiring was first put in.  And we'll have a shower put in while we're having the rewiring done - another of those things we haven't got round to yet.  This VAT reduction has come at an excellent time for us as well :)  Oh yes, and our house will no longer be a fire risk.  

We're planning on trying to get some money back from the electrician who certified the electrics and did some of the work about two years ago - yes, just before we bought the house.  I know that if we had employed him claiming would be easy enough but I'm not sure where we stand as we've bought the house from the people who bought the original service.  Her certified it as good for 5 years when it wasn't actually good for ten minutes, so I think it's worth a go.

5 comments:

RedHillian said...

Mmm. Getting money back. I'd try the electrician / company first, and if no joy then any trade association they're signed up to.

Anonymous said...

The vague thing I can remember from law, like, the basis for consumer law was pretty much established in donahughe vs stevens, where this won bought a drink for her friend, but the drink had a snail in it, but they still managed to claim, even though the drink wasn't bought by the woman who had the snail...
basically the manufacturer has a duty of care to their neighbour.

Anonymous said...

Basically, I can't really remember much of my law studies...

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