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Buyer Beware
There were nearly 2.5 million residential sales in the UK in 2014-15. However, research carried out by Electrical Safety First found that only 37% of buyers had the electrics checked before purchase. One in five believed that electrical checks were included in the recommended home survey report and just under half were unaware that checks were needed at all.
Over a third of home buyers then went on to discover electrical problems that they were not aware of before purchase - something that could easily be avoided by getting a registered electrician to inspect the electrics and issue an Electrical Installation Condition Report.
Sean's Story
Sean bought his first house last year and was thrilled to get onto the property ladder. However, he explains that his excitement was short-lived:
"A few months after moving in my fusebox started sparking so once I had managed to switch it off I called an electrician over for some advice. I’ve now had to fork out almost £10,000 to cover the cost of the damage and to rewire the entire house. I can’t help thinking that all this could have been avoided if I had just had an Electrical Installation Condition Report done before buying my home"
The average cost to fix an electrical problem identified after moving into a property is £1,704. But as Sean's story shows, it could be much higher. And as around 70 people die and 350,000 are seriously injured as a r
