EICR Testing and Certificates in Brixton
EICR testing, remedial works and landlord certificates for landlords, letting agents, housing providers and homeowners across Brixton — council housing, housing-association estates and regeneration schemes, from the Loughborough Estate to Somerleyton Road.
- Codes explained
- Price before attendance
- Qualified inspectors
- Full report and schedules
Serving Brixton, Loughborough Junction, Kennington, Herne Hill, Clapham and surrounding areas.
EICR prices
From £106.80 inc VAT (£89 + VAT)
| Property | Price inc VAT | Ex VAT |
|---|---|---|
| Studio flat | £106.80 | £89 |
| 1-bedroom property | £132 | £110 |
| 2-bedroom property | £192 | £160 |
| 3-bedroom property | £240 | £200 |
| 4-bedroom property | £300 | £250 |
| 5-bedroom property | £360 | £300 |
| Commercial EICR | from £288 | from £240 |
| HMO or multiple consumer units | Quoted individually | |
- Full Electrical Installation Condition Report with observation and test schedules
- C1, C2, C3 and FI observations explained in plain English
- Written remedial quote if the report is unsatisfactory — remedial work priced separately
Residential prices are based on property size and assume one consumer unit, a normal circuit count and reasonable access. Converted properties, HMOs, multiple boards and unusually complex installations are quoted individually.
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.
Property licensing in Lambeth
- Additional HMO licensingborough-wide — smaller HMOs outside the mandatory scheme — since December 2021, running to December 2026
- Selective licensing4 wards: Knights Hill, Streatham Common & Vale, Streatham Hill East, Streatham St Leonards — most privately rented homes occupied by a single household — since September 2024, running to September 2029
- Selective licensing19 designated wards — most privately rented homes occupied by a single household — since September 2025, running to August 2030
- Mandatory HMO licensingqualifying larger HMOs — applies nationally, not a local scheme
Licence applications and renewals ask for current electrical safety documentation. Check your property's exact status and any exemptions with the council before applying.
A burning smell from a plug socket - or scorching round a switch or the fuse box - isn't something to sleep on, and our emergency electrician treats it as exactly the danger it is. EICR come back unsatisfactory and you're staring at C1, C2 or FI codes wondering what happens next? Our eicr remedial work puts the faults right and closes the paperwork out with the appropriate certification. With so much of Brixton rented - from Angell Town to the conversions off Brixton Hill - agents and landlords needing an eicr certificate for a tenancy or licence come to us for eicr testing Brixton landlords can actually hand to the council. And lights flickering or bulbs blowing week after week? That's often ageing circuits telling you rewiring is due. Whatever's brought you here, you'll get a straight answer and a written quote - not guesswork.
EICR Testing and Electrical Services in Brixton
Somebody has asked you for a certificate. An agent, a tenant, a licensing officer, a lender's surveyor - it's nearly always one of those four, and it's nearly always needed sooner than is comfortable. Our process is deliberately plain: survey and test the installation, put the cost of any work in writing before it starts, and hand over documents you can actually file. Councils and housing associations, portfolio landlords, letting and managing agents, private landlords holding a single flat - all routine. So are homeowners, HMO landlords, people buying or selling, and independent shops and cafés with a unit to keep compliant.
Scale doesn't change the job. A single studio flat gets the same engineer and the same test sheet as a 200-home programme. Our engineers are qualified to the standards the work requires, the line's answered 24/7, and picking an EICR electrician Brixton landlords can rely on shouldn't take more than one honest conversation about process.
Testing means the installation goes dead for a while and everything gets measured - insulation resistance, earth fault loop, RCD operation, continuity - against BS 7671. Around here that's two very different jobs on the same street: purpose-built estate flats with communal risers, and flats sitting over shopfronts where the supply arrangement is anyone's guess until it's opened up. Missing 30mA RCD protection turns up on plenty of older installations, and it is not an automatic fail - depending on the circuit, where it runs and what it's likely to feed, it's coded C2 or C3. That distinction is the difference between an obligation and a recommendation, and it lands squarely on your budget. Your eicr certificate Brixton file needs is issued on the day the outcome is settled, satisfactory or not. Arrange the inspection before the date somebody else set.
EICR Remedial Works
A report comes back unsatisfactory because of C1, C2 or FI observations - never a C3 on its own. We work through them in priority order, and in commercial units the recurring one is the overloaded circuit: years of extension leads, adaptors and added sockets on cable that was never rated for the load, quietly cooking behind a counter. Nuisance tripping is usually the first hint. We correct, we re-test, and completion is evidenced by written confirmation plus the right certificate for the work - an Electrical Installation Certificate or Minor Electrical Installation Works Certificate as applicable. If a brand new full report is needed afterwards, that's a separate piece of work and it's priced as one. Get the coded faults corrected while the list is still short.
Landlord Electrical Safety Packages
Rented stock around Brixton Hill and Loughborough Junction turns over fast, and every turnover is another compliance file somebody will eventually audit. The package covers the EICR, portable appliance testing on what you supply, and working smoke and carbon monoxide alarms, all scheduled together and certificated for the tenancy - one visit, one set of paperwork, one date to diary next time. Worth being precise about one thing: communal installations, the stairwells and corridors and landlord supplies to common parts, sit outside the dwelling-specific rented-sector regulations. They still have to be maintained and inspected, just under different duties, so we quote them on their own line rather than blurring the two. Set up the landlord package and stop tracking three deadlines.
Related electrical work in Brixton
- Consumer unit and fuse box upgrades - when the existing board has no capacity, no RCDs and no sensible way forward.
- Rewiring and part rewires - full or partial rewires for installations too far gone for circuit-by-circuit repair.
- 24/7 emergency electricians - burning smells, sparking accessories, total loss of power, attended around the clock.
- PAT testing - testing kettles, fridges and equipment you provide, in lets and commercial premises alike.
A report that expired last quarter is a problem today, not at the next renewal.
Electrical Problems We Fix in Brixton
Shocks or Tingling From Taps and Appliances
Got a shock from the tap, or a tingle off the washing machine? That usually means exposed metalwork has become live - often missing or inadequate earthing or bonding, sometimes a faulty appliance, occasionally a deteriorating supply neutral. Any shock means protection has failed. Stop using it, isolate if you can, and treat a shock or tingle from metalwork as the emergency it is.
Council Demands for an EICR
Council asking for your EICR, or threatening a fine because there isn't one? A request must be answered within 7 days, and penalty exposure runs per breach. Usually the report has expired, or remedial work was never evidenced within the 28 days - or sooner where the report specifies -. If you've had a council notice about an EICR, the paperwork problem is fixable - but only before the deadline passes, not after.
Partial Power Loss Across the Property
Half the sockets dead but the lights fine? It's often a tripped MCB, a failed connection mid-circuit, or a broken leg on a ring final leaving part of it dead - and the rest overloaded. Failed connections are where arcing and heat damage start, so dead sockets with everything else working is a same-day job, not a weekend puzzle.
Old Wiring and Rewire Decisions
Surveyor flagged old wiring in the house you're buying? In stock this age it's often original rubber-insulated circuits, lighting with no earths, or a patchwork of partial rewires that dodged the oldest cables. It's plannable - unless testing finds live degradation, which needs isolating straight away. Working out whether the property needs rewiring starts with an electrical installation condition report Brixton surveyors will accept, and the honest answer is sometimes "only part of it". Price the wiring before you exchange, not after you've moved in.
Weighing Up Who Should Do Your EICR?
Fair enough - a 5 year electrical check is worth choosing well. So judge us on paper: send over your unsatisfactory report and we'll price the actual remedial work, code by code, in a written quote you can compare against anyone. Or book the inspection before a niggling fault grows into a bigger one. Either way, you'll know exactly where your property stands.
Electrical Safety Across Brixton's Housing Stock
Brixton's housing is a genuine mix, and each slice of it generates its own electrical work. Here's how it breaks down for anyone holding a landlord eicr Brixton duty - council, association, agent or private.
Council and ALMO Housing
The big post-war estates dominate. The Loughborough Estate's 1950s stock is TMO-managed, which matters commercially: the EMB procures its own landlord and communal testing rather than routing everything through the council, and boards of that vintage sit squarely in the consumer-unit-upgrade cycle. Angell Town runs to around 630 council homes with communal circulation and landlord supplies on the borough-wide programme. Roupell Park's 15 blocks are another distinct buyer again - its RMO commissions communal installations and tenanted-flat EICRs directly. And Southwyck House, the 1970s "Barrier Block", pairs 176 homes with long deck-access corridors full of landlord lighting and supplies. Four estates, three different duty-holders - knowing who actually places the order is half the job.
Housing-Association Stock
Loughborough Park is the clearest example: fully rebuilt by Guinness in the 2010s, so the wiring's modern - but the recurring 5-year cycles don't care. Flat EICRs on the rented homes and communal fixed-installation testing across the apartment blocks now come round on schedule, with Guinness holding the duty. New stock still needs its paperwork kept current.
Regeneration and New-Build Developments
Somerleyton Road's Phase 2 is, as of July 2026, a dated handover pipeline: each block completed will need initial electrical certification, then drop into communal and flat-level EICR cycles from the handover certificate's issue date around 2028. First-cycle testing on new developments is where compliance files either start clean or start chaotic.
Period Conversions and Older Wiring
Between the estates sit the Victorian terraces, most long since carved into flats. Conversions of that age tend to hide non-compliant DIY alterations - buried junction boxes, missing earths, wrong cable sizes - that only surface under inspection, and an unsatisfactory eicr on a tenanted conversion starts a remedial clock. With Brixton's rental turnover, a 5 year electrical check missed on one flat can quietly become a portfolio problem.
Every one of these stock types feeds a testing cycle that's already running. The landlords who map their renewal dates now are the ones who never meet the enforcement side of it.
Electrical Safety Services Across Brixton and Nearby Areas
Wherever you are in SW9 or SW2, an eicr Brixton booking covers the surrounding pockets too - and each one has its own character.
Herne Hill (SE24)
Herne Hill's stock leans heavily to Victorian and Edwardian terraces, many split into flats decades ago. Wiring in SE24 conversions often predates modern RCD protection, so landlord electrical safety certificates here regularly come back with upgrade work attached. If yours is due for renewal, testing before the tenancy turns over avoids a scramble later.
Loughborough Junction (SE5 / SW9)
A dense patch where railway arches, small commercial units and older flats sit side by side across SE5 and SW9. Mixed-use buildings need both sides covered - EAWR duties on the business space, tenancy EICRs above. One inspection visit sorting both is cheaper than two enforcement letters.
Brixton Hill
Up the hill the terraces get bigger and the HMO count climbs. Shared houses carry the tightest inspection expectations of any rental type, and older boards rarely survive scrutiny unchanged. An HMO landlord who tests before the licence inspection controls the timetable; one who waits doesn't.
Angell Town
Estate housing dominates here - post-war blocks with communal supplies alongside tenanted flats on rolling programmes. Leaseholders and buyers in ex-council stock often need their own electrical installation condition report for a sale or remortgage. Getting it done early keeps the transaction moving rather than stalling it.
Questions About EICRs and Electrical Work in Brixton
What does an EICR cost, and what changes the price?
Size and age, mostly. A one-bed flat with a modern board takes far less test time than a five-bed HMO wired in stages over 40 years. Circuits count too - every one gets tested, not sampled at random. You'll get a fixed written price before we book, so there's no meter running on the day. The longer a property goes untested, the more surprises end up on the eventual quote.
How long does eicr testing in Brixton take, and will the power be off?
Most flats take two to four hours; larger houses longer. Power goes off circuit by circuit while each is tested, not all day - we'll tell tenants what to expect beforehand. Booking a quiet weekday morning now beats squeezing it in the week a tenancy starts.
Do you take on small jobs?
Yes - genuinely. A single-flat eicr gets the same attention as a 200-home portfolio programme, and one shop unit or one private house is a normal day's work for us, not a favour. Small jobs booked promptly stay small; that's rather the point.
What paperwork do I actually get?
The full electrical installation condition report: every circuit tested, every observation coded C1, C2, C3 or FI, with each code explained so you know what's dangerous, what's advisory and what needs further investigation. Unsatisfactory report? You also get a priced remedial quote, and once the work's done we re-test and reissue. That file is what a council, agent or buyer will ask to see - worth having ready before they ask.
Who's responsible for the EICR - me or my letting agent?
The duty under the 2020 Regulations sits with the landlord, whoever handles the admin - and since SI 2025/1043 came into force on 1 November 2025, the civil penalty cap per breach is £40,000. Agents can arrange it, but the fine lands on the property owner. If you're not certain a current satisfactory report exists for your rental, that's worth resolving this week rather than after a tenant complains.
Get Your Brixton EICR Booked In
You've seen how we work and what the report covers. The next step is simple: tell us the property and we'll put a written quote in front of you - for the inspection, or for the remedial work an unsatisfactory eicr has left you holding. The line's answered 24/7, and same-day appointments are available. One call and it's off your list.
Related electrical work
Other work we take on in Brixton — each one has its own page.
- Consumer unit and fuse box upgrades — when an EICR flags an old board with no RCD protection.
- Rewiring and part rewires — when circuits are past their service life rather than repairable.
- 24/7 emergency electricians — when something is happening right now — the line is answered 24/7.
- PAT testing — for appliances in let and commercial properties.