Professional Electrical Safety Services in London
Booking electrical safety services in London? Clear scope, a price confirmed before we attend, and every observation explained in plain English.
- Codes explained
- Price before attendance
- Qualified inspectors
- Full report and schedules
Serving London, East London, North London, South East London, South West London and surrounding areas.
A burning smell from a socket needs someone tonight, not a slot next week - our emergency electrician line runs 24/7 for exactly that call-out. If a report has come back unsatisfactory and you're staring at C2 codes with a deadline attached, we price and clear the list through eicr remedial work, then close it out properly. Letting or renewing a tenancy? An eicr certificate gets booked, tested and delivered with the codes explained in plain English. And when the lights flicker every time the kettle goes on, that's usually ageing circuits talking - rewiring the tired parts ends the guesswork. Whatever brought you here, it has a fix with a price on it.
EICR Testing London Landlords Can Rely On
Most of the EICR testing London landlords and agents book with us starts with a deadline somebody else set - a tenancy going live, an agent refusing to market a flat, a licence application sitting half-finished. So that's how we run it: inspect the fixed wiring against BS 7671, test it circuit by circuit, and hand back an electrical installation condition report you can actually put on file.
That report isn't a pass or fail sticker. Every observation carries a code, and the codes decide your next move. C1 means danger is present now. C2 means potentially dangerous. C3 is an improvement recommendation, and FI means something needs further investigation before anyone can call it safe. Any C1, C2 or FI and the report is unsatisfactory - which is the bit that catches people out, because the paperwork does nothing for you until those items are cleared and the installation is signed off again.
Then there's the clock. Private rented tenancies in England have needed an EICR at least every five years since the Electrical Safety Standards in the Private Rented Sector (England) Regulations 2020 came into force for all existing tenancies in April 2021, and the 2020 Regulations 5-year cycle doesn't restart because a property changed hands or sat empty for a while. Let it lapse and councils can impose civil penalties of up to £40,000 per breach (SI 2025/1043, in force 1 November 2025).
We handle the whole job, not just the testing - inspection and certification, fault finding and remedial work, installation and upgrades. That runs from a single flat in East London to a 200-home portfolio programme scheduled borough by borough, and the one-off gets the same attention as the contract. If something's dangerous right now rather than due for testing, that's an emergency electrician job instead of an inspection booking.
An out-of-date eicr certificate London agents won't market against means a property you can't let - and that bill starts on the day the tenancy should have.
Electrical Faults and Deadlines We Fix Across London
Almost everything that lands with us is one of four situations. Some are landlord electrical safety compliance problems with a legal clock attached; others are faults that stop a building working. Where the trouble sits at the board rather than in the walls, the answer is often a local consumer unit upgrade and nothing more drastic than that.
Council Demands and Improvement Notices
"The council's asking for my EICR." Usually the report never existed, or it expired quietly while the tenancy rolled on - and once the council requests it, there's a 7-day limit to supply it. If an unsatisfactory report's remedial work was never done or never evidenced, they can serve a remedial notice, arrange the work themselves and recover the cost. A council demand for an EICR is an emergency with a legal deadline; exposure runs per breach, not per visit.
No Power in the Whole Property
"There's no electricity in the whole house - main fuse blown?" Sometimes it's supply-side: a network outage or a blown DNO cutout fuse, nothing to do with your installation. Often it's the main switch or RCD refusing to hold because there's a live fault behind it. Once the network's ruled out, total power loss is an emergency - no heat, no fridge, and a fault nobody has isolated.
Old Wiring That May Need a Rewire
"The surveyor says it needs rewiring." Typically that's original rubber or lead-sheathed cable still in service, lighting circuits with no earth, or a patchwork of part rewires that skipped the oldest runs. Rewiring and part rewires are plannable work, and whether the property needs a rewire is a testing question first. Live degradation changes that - those circuits come off immediately while the rest is planned.
Fixed-Wire Testing for Business Premises
"The insurer wants an electrical test certificate before renewal." The duty sits in the Electricity at Work Regulations 1989 and gets evidenced in practice by periodic testing, commonly on a 3-5 year cycle depending on the premises. Book fixed-wire testing for a commercial property against the renewal or lease date - though C1 and C2 findings in an occupied shop or office turn into urgent works, not scheduled ones.
Every one of these gets worse on a timetable you don't control - the council's, the insurer's, or the fault's.
Book an EICR before it becomes urgent
020 7123 9361London Stock and the Unsatisfactory EICR
Where a report fails tells you a lot about the building it came from. Across South East London and East London, ex-council flats and 1960s-80s purpose-built blocks are often still on original distribution boards with no RCD protection on socket circuits, plus a decade of tenant alterations stacked on top - that's the trip switch that won't stay in, and it's usually remedial work at the distribution board, not in the walls. In the Victorian and Edwardian conversion belt across North London, it's what sits behind the modern fittings: unearthed lighting circuits, buried joints, a couple of dead sockets on one wall while the rest of the flat behaves perfectly.
The remedial work is where owners lose money, not the test. Put right what genuinely codes as C1 or C2, settle any FI item that needs investigating, evidence the lot, and issue the appropriate certification and written confirmation of completion. Chase every C3 as well and you've paid for half a rewire without meaning to - though where perished cable really is the cause, a properly priced electrical rewiring service beats three rounds of patching the same circuit.
Remedials sorted while the report is fresh always cost less than remedials sorted under an enforcement deadline.
Electrical Safety Services Across London
Seven jobs cover nearly everything landlords, agents, homeowners and small businesses ask us for. Find the one that matches your situation - each page sets out the detail.
Why London Landlords Keep Our Number
Electrical work splits into two kinds - the sort you diarise, and the sort that happens at eleven at night. We do both, and that's the honest reason people stay with us instead of juggling a tester, a remedial firm and somebody else for the panics.
The phone line is answered 24/7, year round. Emergency electrician call-outs work on the same footing: a tenant with no power, a circuit that won't hold, conductors exposed after a leak or a break-in. On an emergency the first job is making the property safe and usable; the repair and the paperwork follow once we can see what actually let go. Everything else - testing, remedials, board changes, rewires - is a booked appointment. Same-day appointments are available across our services, but nobody rewires a flat at midnight and we won't pretend otherwise.
Then the unglamorous part agents actually care about: documentation that stands up to scrutiny. A report a licensing officer can read without ringing you back. A remedial schedule that matches the observations line for line. Proper certification for any new circuits we install, and a PAT testing certificate where appliances are in scope. Our engineers are qualified to the standards the work requires, and the report says plainly what was tested and what was sampled.
We know the stock, too. A managing agent taking on a newly handed-over block in Central London is dealing with tenant alterations and letting turnover, not age - a completely different job from a 1930s terrace cut into three flats, where the problem is whatever the last three "improvements" left buried in the plaster. Same landlord electrical safety duty, very different day's work.
And we'll tell you when something doesn't need doing. Half the value of an honest inspection is knowing which observation genuinely codes and which one is somebody's upsell - chase the wrong ones and you pay twice for the same failure.
An unsatisfactory eicr left in a drawer doesn't age well; the next person to read it is usually the council.
Ready to Get the EICR Booked?
A landlord electrical safety certificate London agents will accept starts with one booked inspection - we test, we report, and any remedial work comes back as a clear written quote once we've seen what's actually there. Same-day appointments available, and the phone's answered 24/7 if tonight suits better than next month. One flat or a whole block, it's the same booking and the same standard of paperwork at the end.
Common Questions About Electrical Safety Certificates
How long does an inspection take, and how disruptive is it?
It tracks the number of circuits, not the postcode. A one-bed conversion flat is often a morning's work; a big house with a garage supply and a converted loft takes longer, because every circuit is tested individually and the power comes off in stages while that happens. Occupied properties are fine as long as tenants have been warned. Slotting it in before a tenancy starts is far easier than squeezing it into a busy void week.
Can I do any of this myself?
No - and not because we're precious about it. Testing needs calibrated instruments and someone qualified to read what comes back; insulation resistance and earth fault loop results mean nothing without that context. Swapping a board yourself is notifiable under Part P of the Building Regulations, too. And a report you've written yourself won't be accepted by a council, an agent or an insurer.
What does it cost, and what happens if it comes back unsatisfactory?
Price follows the size of the installation - circuit count, number of boards, whether commercial equipment is in the mix. If observations are coded, we price the repairs in writing afterwards, itemised against the report, so you decide with the facts in front of you. Use someone else for the works if you'd rather; they'll still need testing and the report reissuing before it's worth anything. Private landlords have 28 days - or sooner where the report specifies - to complete and evidence remedial work, so an unsatisfactory eicr isn't something to sit on.
Can everything a rented property needs be done in one go?
Yes - that's exactly what our landlord safety certificate packages are for. One scheduled visit takes in the landlord electrical inspection, portable appliances and the smoke and carbon monoxide alarms, all certificated to the same date for your tenancy records. Anyone running several properties finds a single planned run beats chasing three trades and three lots of paperwork.
My property is owner-occupied - do I still need one?
There's no legal five-year duty on owner-occupied homes - IET Guidance Note 3 points at up to ten years, or change of occupancy. The five-year rule bites on private rented tenancies. Buyers, sellers and their surveyors still want a current report before a sale moves on.
Questions raised mid-sale, or mid-tenancy, cost a good deal more than a check booked while nobody's waiting on it.
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- Same-day appointments are available for all our services
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- 24/7 emergency electrician call-outs
- Our engineers are qualified to the standards the work requires
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The price is confirmed before attendance from the property details supplied. If the installation materially differs - additional consumer units, or an undeclared commercial area - we explain and agree any change in scope before testing continues.
Landlord Electrical Safety Certificates