Browse Forums Building Standards; Getting It Right! Re: House purchased that has illegal wiring 4Oct 31, 2010 2:29 pm Are these problems obvious, such as, were they identified in the roof space or did gyprock need to be removed? Get a second opinion, maybe the sparky you are currently dealing with needs the work. Contact the business who undertook the building inspection.(refer to my first question) Re: House purchased that has illegal wiring 5Oct 31, 2010 6:50 pm Thanks for the advice everyone - Yea I have already remedied the most serious of the issues (insulation covering down lights, cluster of wires leading to each downlight etc) ... Interestingly I immediately contacted the Office of Technical Registrar (I am in Adelaide) to report the electrician that incorrectly signed off on the the COC and they couldn't of cared less ... They took their details and said there was nothing they could really do since it was 4 years ago and the electrician would claim that the work was done after them. Evediently not being certified to sign a COC in the first instance is not that big of a deal! 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 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 15851 4 14860 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 14791 |