Browse Forums Building Standards; Getting It Right! Re: House purchased that has illegal wiring 6Nov 03, 2010 1:53 am claylang I have thought of the building inspection guy, since he should have atleast notified me that the down lights were covered by insulation - but apparently that is a bit hard since he is not an electrician ... Oh well lesson learned - get an electrian involved in the inspection in the first instance ... Cheersw If he is a building inspector then he should be able to pick up obvious things like insulation covering the light. Don't need to be a sparkie to see that, no other obvious wiring faults. I work with owner, he/she is my man on the ground and I instruct them when to visit the site and take photos and I have other tools in the bag. 4 15265 4 14277 Thank you so much. This has been very helpful. We definitely wish to settle and get these people out of our life. They are trying to charge us interest on late… 7 14262 |